COMMISSIONAIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissionaire mean? 

• COMMISSIONAIRE (noun)
  The noun COMMISSIONAIRE has 1 sense:

1. a uniformed doorman

  Familiarity information: COMMISSIONAIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSIONAIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A uniformed doorman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commissionaire" is a kind of...):

door guard; doorkeeper; doorman; gatekeeper; hall porter; ostiary; porter (someone who guards an entrance)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The commissionaire plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You know Peterson, the commissionaire?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)