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Definition of Commissionaire
1. Noun. A uniformed doorman.
Generic synonyms: Door Guard, Doorkeeper, Doorman, Gatekeeper, Hall Porter, Ostiary, Porter
Definition of Commissionaire
1. n. 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.
Definition of Commissionaire
1. Noun. (British) A uniformed doorman. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) An undisclosed agent under European civil law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commissionaire
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissionaire
Literary usage of Commissionaire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Course in Foreign Trade by Business Training Corporation, New York, Business Training Corporation (1916)
"The shipments are also made through the office of the commissionaire, ... For this
service the commissionaire charges a commission of from 3 to 7 per cent. ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"If the passers-by did not stare wonderingly at me, I fancied that they did ; the
commissionaire who was stationed beside the great folding-doors evidently ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"We took a commissionaire, a respectable-looking man, in a cloak, who said his
name was Salvator Rosa; and he engaged to show us whatever was interesting in ..."
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