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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commissionaire
noun
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▪ Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire.
▪ She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
▪ They shouted obscene greetings to him, treating him like a commissionaire, or a bar man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commissionaire

Commissionaire \Com*mis`sion*aire"\, n. [F. commissionnaire. Cf. Commissioner.]

  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]

Wiktionary
commissionaire

n. 1 One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc. 2 (context British English) A uniformed doorman. 3 (context legal English) An undisclosed agent under European civil law.

WordNet
commissionaire

n. a uniformed doorman

Wikipedia
Commissionaire

In mainland Europe, a commissionaire is an attendant, messenger or subordinate employed in hotels, whose chief duty is to attend at railway stations, secure customers, take charge of their luggage, carry out the necessary formalities with respect to it and have it sent on to the hotel. They are also employed in Paris as street messengers, light porters, etc.

In the UK and some Commonwealth countries, a commissionaire is a doorman.

Under commercial and tax law in civil law jurisdictions (much of mainland Europe), a commissionaire arrangement is a variation on agency, under which the principal is not bound to the customer by actions of the commissionaire.

Commissionaire (film)

Commissionaire is a 1933 British crime film directed by Edward Dryhurst and starring Sam Livesey, Barry Livesey and George Carney.

Usage examples of "commissionaire".

Smith thanked the commissionaire for his information and we quitted the gallery.

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.

There was regular landscape gardening, all the outside woodwork was repainted every year, brass gleamed everywhere and a smart commissionaire stood in the hall.

The little crowd pressed in upon me closely and listened awe-struck as the Commissionaire spoke to me, in French, of course.

Involuntarily, I glanced round at the others as the Commissionaire scowled threateningly at me.

It was not a Commissary of Police this time, but a uniformed commissionaire, with a note in his hand.

The commissionaire, very stiff and military, came in and stood to attention, his eyes fixed on Colonel Anderson.

He followed her out of the room and out of the hotel, and waited while the commissionaire produced a taxi and placed it before them with the regal gesture of a magician performing a unique and exclusive miracle.

He is to evil as a commissionaire is to the film showing on the screen, someone you must pass before coming to the real thing.

He had been back at his rooms in Buckingham Street half an hour when a club commissionaire arrived with Mr.

The commissionaire at the Piccadilly entrance of the restaurant touched his hat ingratiatingly, with the smug confidence of a man who is accustomed to getting sixpence a time for doing it.

The commissionaire stared after him as intently as the waiter and the hat-check boy.

To access the elevator he had to collect an electronic tag from the commissionaire, who punched in its encoded number.

Simon allowed her to thank him again, and coolly followed her in before the commissionaire closed the door.

The two commissionaires employed had been selected in distant quarters, and did not know each other.