doormann.
/ˈdɔːmən/, U.S. /ˈdɔrmən/, /ˈdɔrˌmæn/α. 1800s– doorman.
β. 1800s doorsman.
1. A farrier's assistant.
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1896 Daily Chron. 25 Aug. 9/5 Farrier—Young man wants Job as doorman and jobbing.
1897 Daily News 10 May 11/5 The present scale of pay is 5s. a day for doormen and 6s. for firemen.
1901 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 184/2 [Advt. in provincial newspaper] Wanted, doorman, able to nail well.
2. Also doorsman. An attendant at the door of a shop or place of entertainment.
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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
1858 Evening Star 18 June Doorsman to a photographic artist.
1895 Daily News 10 Jan. 5/2 A ‘doorsman,’ whose business it was to..invite the patronage of the public.
1904 Daily Chron. 26 July 6/4 A publican whose doorman ejected a customer.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 9/1 Employment as porter, odd-man, lift-man, or door-man.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 701/1 At this moment entered the discreet white-clad doorman.
1959 Times 18 June 19/5 Mehmet Hassan..doorman..was sentenced to 21 months.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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