单词 | doorkeeper |
释义 | doorkeepern. One who keeps or guards a door; a janitor, porter, ostiary. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper doorwardc950 gate-wardc1000 porter?a1300 ostiary?a1475 portitor1480 doorkeeper1535 gatekeeper1572 janitora1640 conciergea1697 hall-keeper1705 durwan1773 commissioner1820 lodge-keeper1855 doorman1858 lodge-man1892 commissionaire1895 dvornik1903 linkman1939 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. x. D Vnto these foure maner of chefe dorrkepers were the Leuites committed. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. lxxxiii. [lxxxiv.] 10 A dore keper in the house of my God. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 354 The dogge is a diligent dorekeeper. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 144 Auaunt thou damned dore-keeper . View more context for this quotation 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 179 Privileged..to pass into the theatre without stopping at the door-keeper's box. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1535 |
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