doorkeeper
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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
The zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity, and only long enough to let visitors sneak quickly out.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
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
“He has either skill or power, or the doorkeeper wouldn’t have let him in. Why shouldn’t he show it, now as well as later? Right, Sparrowhawk?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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