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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



... who said he was a picture-palace proprietor, applied for exemption for the commissionaire who stood outside the building ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 • Various
... evening. A commissionaire took her trunk and she followed him in great fear, jostled by the crowd and not knowing how to make her way amid this mass of moving humanity, almost running to keep up with the man for fear of losing ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... of the staffs and the general character of the business which was being carried on. This was a necessary precaution because these offices were immediately under his own flat. But just now they had a special value, because it was a practice during the daytime for the three firms to employ a commissionaire, who occupied a little glass-partitioned office on the landing and attended impartially to the needs of all three tenants to the best of ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... into the street outside, shook her head to the commissionaire's upraised whistle, and strolled along until she came to a cross street down which several motor-cars were waiting. She approached one—a very handsome limousine—and checked the driver who would have ...
— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... It was a day crowded with happenings. The Burton Room was closed to the public, whilst a glazier worked upon the broken east window and a new blind was fitted to the west. Behind the workmen, guarded by a watchful commissionaire, yawned the shattered case containing ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... up with a jerk, and a commissionaire threw open the apron. Douglas handed his companion out, and they entered the restaurant together. In a distant corner they found a table to themselves, and he ...
— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim
... in the doorkeeper's glass box at the Buckingham. I was eyed by the suspicious commissionaire with the contempt reserved for resting actors. Resting actors are hungry suppliants as a rule. Call-boys sought Mr. Fox. "Anybody seen Mr. ...
— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad
... Casino we marched in triumph. At once, both in the person of the commissionaire and in the persons of the footmen, there sprang to life the same reverence as had arisen in the lacqueys of the hotel. Yet it was not without some curiosity that they ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... Irene Adler papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... o'clock he crept out into the frosty daylight, found a commissionaire who was accustomed to do errands for him, and sent him with a letter to ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... now became necessary. His real name had been mentioned before the commissionaire, and the widow Masson, who owned the cellar, only knew him as Ducoudray. He went on in front, asked for the keys, which till then had been left with her, and the chest was got downstairs without any awkward questions. Only the porter ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - DERUES • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE


Words linked to "Commissionaire" :   doorman, Great Britain, porter, UK, U.K., gatekeeper, ostiary, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, hall porter, door guard, United Kingdom, doorkeeper, Britain


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