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• n  someone who guards an entrance

• His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations.
• The apartment she's trying to sell today is in Newport Lofts, a doorman building with a pool, gym and clubhouse on the roof, which, the custodian tells us, haven't been used by .
• The doorman wouldnt even look at me, he recalls with a wink.

• doorkeeper
• door guard
• hall porter
• porter
• gatekeeper
• ostiary

News & Articles

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• Man found dead inside Gold Coast apartment
  Chicago Police found a man dead inside his burned, Gold Coast apartment near the 1100 block of North Lake Shore Drive. Officers were called to the building Friday night for a well being check after the doorman reported not seeing …
  June 16, 2013 - WGN TV Chicago
• Man found dead in Gold Coast apartment after fire
  A man was found dead inside his Gold Coast apartment after the building's doorman called police to check on the man's well being Friday night.        
  June 15, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
• The Sculptor Backstage
  Regan Kimmel, 58, keeps busy bending wire into masterpieces while working as the stage doorman at the Longacre Theater.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Bruce Forsyth in Tivyside Advertiser
  Forsyth, who got his big break with Sunday Night at the London Palladium, said: "It's so moving that this is where it started 58 years ago when I walked into this theatre and didn't know a soul and the stage doorman made me feel so much at...
• Maurice Sendak in International Herald Tribune
  But President, you're only going to be president for a year more,Sendak said, "you still have time to be a doorman."
• Dominic Chianese in San Francisco Chronicle
  My doorman, especially, was shocked,actor Dominic Chianese, who plays Uncle Junior, said on Monday.