English

Etymology
door + keeper
Noun
en-noun

1. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.

#:1920 The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theatre was warned not to admit him to the house; and Charley Edwards remorsefully promised the boy's father not to see him again. � Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa.''

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