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doorman
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[ noun ] (work) someone who guards the entrance to a building
Synonyms Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)At 7 : 25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps , carrying a saw-horse to be set_up as a barricade in_front_of the haberdashery_store window next to the entranceway , and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground , their golden , fringed epaulets and spic , red visored caps , I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman : `` Excuse me , but when we came_out we found that we had left my daughter 's handbag and my wife 's behind '' . Related terms |
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