How To Use Commissionaire In A Sentence
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The imposing flight of steps outside, flanked by art deco lamp standards and a uniformed commissionaire, certainly suggests something special.
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He is manhandled out of the room, down a labyrinth of hallways, and then finally deposited in the lobby with a firm reminder to sign out and leave his pass with the commissionaire.
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I was _en route_ all night, and in the morning, very weary, I went to a hotel, called a commissionaire, and bade him get my passport from the police, and have it _visee_, and secure me a passage on the boat to Leghorn.
Memoirs
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The current disruption at York District Hospital is being smoothed over by a new commissionaire - former city pub bouncer Lisa Harrison.
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He strolled cheekily past the commissionaires for a free wash in the gentlemen's cloakroom.
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Then hands were dragging him off the body, Max, the commissionaire, others.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Usually a busy thoroughfare, at weekends the foyer was deserted but for a commissionaire and a receptionist.
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A commissionaire guides me through heavy wooden doors, past towering marble pillars into a vast circular entrance hall covered from floor to ceiling in intricate frescos.
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The place had a uniformed commissionaire, a dress circle and rude behaviour was ruthlessly stamped out by frightening torch-wielding usherettes.
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commissionaire" had gone after our Passports, for which we paid first the charge of the Papal Police, which I think was about three francs; then for the _visé_ of our several Consuls, we Americans a dollar each, which (though but half what is charged by our Consuls at other Italian ports) is more than is charged by those of any other nation.
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.
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The English norm was to simplify to a single consonant, which is what we find with commissionaire and concessionaire, presumably following the pattern of the much earlier borrowing debonair, and also doctrinaire, which are recorded for the most part with a single n.
On one n or two
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I remember one occasion, he threatened the commissionaire in reception with the sack if he didn't switch off the television!
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Then came the charge of our "commissionaire" for his services.
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.
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Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire.
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When they retired, they found their services in demand as bank guards, security men on the wharves, at the city's warehouses and hongs, and as commissionaires at hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.
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Oddly, the entire show was performed in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall, London, in front of a motley audience of fans, a few bystanders, some wearied commissionaires and people outside, looking in through the window.
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Enter R. an important-looking personage with a long white beard, wearing a costume which might be, called a commissionaire's if it wasn't so like a harlequin's.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
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She not only gave me the required direction, but called a commissionaire, and bid him take charge of me, and — not my trunk, for that was gone to the custom-house.
Villette
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In my father's day it was much more of a command culture, commissionaires signing people in, priority for directors in the lifts.
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Many of the traditions survive in the modern firm: liveried commissionaires still take visitors' soggy umbrellas and hand them back, dried and furled, when they leave.
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It is impressive both in terms of its collection and its architecture but the moment that impressed me the most was the privilege of chatting with a commissionaire as I stopped by the entrance to the main exhibits area.
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'commissionaire' of the hotel -- I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to -- and told him we wanted a guide.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02
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Several of our guests thought that he was a hired commissionaire!
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A margate is a particular kind of commissionaire who sees you every day and is on cheerful Christian-name terms with you, then one day refuses to let you in because you've forgotten your identify card.
The Meaning of Liff
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Just to round off my walk, the commissionaire, a white-Cuban chap with the physical presence of an elephant, challenged me at the entrance to my hotel: ‘Que quiere?’
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To access the elevator he had to collect an electronic tag from the commissionaire, who punched in its encoded number.
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The mistake was made because the usual commissionaire was unavailable to raise the flag on that particular day.
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It converts its German distributor to a stripped-risk intermediary called a commissionaire to limit what would otherwise be sales margins taxable in Germany.
Transfer Pricing As Tax Avoidance
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French or English style; — I am the commissionaire, sare, and vill see to your loggish.”
The Paris Sketch Book
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The two troublemakers were eventually asked to leave by the manager and commissionaire, but not before visiting the cloakroom and then creating as much disturbance as possible on the way out.
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Even the commissionaires on the door, who have been there from the days when I first started out, always give me a big welcome and I know it will tug at my heart strings when I walk down those marble halls again.
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A margate is a particular kind of commissionaire who sees you every day and is on cheerful Christian-name terms with you, then one day refuses to let you in because you've forgotten your identify card.
The Meaning of Liff
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They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness.
The Complete Father Brown
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The mistake was made because the usual commissionaire was unavailable to raise the flag on that particular day.
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The place had a uniformed commissionaire, a dress circle and rude behaviour was ruthlessly stamped out by frightening torch-wielding usherettes.
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She not only gave me the required direction, but called a commissionaire, and bid him take charge of me, and -- _not_ my trunk, for that was gone to the custom-house.
Villette
