doorkeeper
Example Sentences
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However, the report said a Parliamentary doorkeeper had witnessed the incident.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2022
The Senate post is officially called the sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, harking back to its 18th-century duties of keeping members inside the Capitol to conduct the business of government.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021
A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
To become a “sworn brother,” Bosch would have had to qualify as one of the four grades of minor orders, which were doorkeeper, reader, acolyte and exorcist.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
He realized quickly the strange doorkeeper resembled certain of the Fair Folk he had once seen in Eiddileg’s kingdom; only this individual seemed in a woeful state of disrepair.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
