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Doorkeeper   /dˈɔrkˌipər/   Listen
Doorkeeper

noun
1.
An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber.  Synonym: usher.
2.
The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church.  Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary.
3.
Someone who guards an entrance.  Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter.






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"Doorkeeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... hall, we found it already crowded, although it wanted a full hour before supper was to be announced. Mr. Bowen was doorkeeper, and on the table at his side I was glad to see a goodly heap of coin. Mrs. Blake stood near, regarding the money with unconcealed satisfaction, which considerably deepened when Mrs. Flaxman stepped up and shook hands with her. Daniel seemed to be master of ceremonies, ...
— Medoline Selwyn's Work • Mrs. J. J. Colter

... from Etienne Lousteau, the doorkeeper of the orchestra took out a little key and unlocked a door in the thickness of the wall. Lucien, following his friend, went suddenly out of the lighted corridor into the black darkness of the passage between the house and the ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... had been all this time standing in the door of the chamber, performing the humble duty of a doorkeeper, and barring the entrance to the eager and curious crowd outside. When Mrs. Courtois retired, quite bewildered by her own words, and regretting what she had said, he ...
— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau

... daughters were the first who were found next day, at the office of the doorkeeper of the hospital waiting an opportunity to see their ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb

... He is in Chicago now. You have to bribe a doorkeeper and bluff a secretary to get to him—that is, you do if you are an ordinary mortal. But if you give the Siwash yell or the Eta Bita Pie whistle in the outside office he will emerge from his office out over the railing in one joyous jump. He came to Chicago ten years ago equipped with a diploma ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch


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