ˈdoor-keeper, ˈdoorkeeper
One who keeps or guards a door; a janitor, porter, ostiary.
| 1535 Coverdale 1 Chron. x. [ix.] 26 Vnto these foure maner of chefe dorrkepers were the Leuites committed. ― Ps. lxxxiii. [lxxxiv.] 10 A dore keper in the house of my God. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 354 The dogge is a diligent dorekeeper. 1608 Shakes. Per. iv. vi. 126 Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 179 Privileged..to pass into the theatre without stopping at the door-keeper's box. |