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Commissionaire  n.  
1.
One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. Note: The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.
2.
One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.
3.
A uniformed doorman. (British)





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"Commissionaire" Quotes from Famous Books



... down her eyes, alarmed at the disclosures which the brilliance might devastatingly make. She slipped from his arm, and stood rather forlornly while Alf fished in his pockets for the tickets. With docility she followed him, thrilled when he stepped aside in passing the commissionaire and took her arm. Together they went up the stairs, the heavy carpets with their drugget covers silencing every step, the gilded mirrors throwing their reflections backwards and forwards until the stairs seemed peopled with ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... I had been in London, so I felt no little of a ghost myself, and I knew too well that it would be vain to look for the old faces. Yes, gone was the huge good-natured commissionaire, who so often in the past, on my arrival in company with some human flower, had flung open the apron of our cab with such reverential alacrity, and on our departure had so gently tucked in the petals of her skirts, smiling the while a respectfully ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne
... he did say mug—ugly mug. Was that a thing for a man of spirit to take quietly? Was that a thing for a wife to hear bawled at her husband in the open street with the commissionaire grinning behind his hand? To my dying day I shall never forget my humiliation when ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... first train back to Luxor, or, as the duchess had not seen fit to acquaint him as to her movements, should he stay where he was, write her a letter, or send a telegram and wait for an answer? Anyway, he was irritated enough to scowl at the commissionaire who was rating a woman whom he had seen hanging about the street, doubtless with intent of soliciting a nickel coin from one of the great white race as he—or she—descended the steps ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... many seconds. To break the appalling silence, I began gibbering away in a jargon compound of gesticulation, English and remnants of High School French. Why, oh, why wouldn't somebody say something? At last the commissionaire, ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams


Words linked to "Commissionaire" :   Britain, UK, ostiary, porter, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, gatekeeper, doorman


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