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doorkeeper

[dawr-kee-per, dohr-] / ˈdɔrˌki pər, ˈdoʊr- /






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When Lord Young started to respond Lady Bloomfield replied: "I had to send a note to you in order to wake you up by the doorkeeper."

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2022

A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2020

Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017

Club, and young women were swiftly waved in, known so well they exchanged double-cheeked kisses with the doorkeeper.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016

The Commensal was out, the doorkeeper did not know where he was or when he would be in.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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