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US
/ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/
]
[ UK /kˌɒnsɪˈeəʒ/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒnsɪˈeəʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter
How To Use concierge In A Sentence
- Similarly, it has been decreed that concierges watch television interminably while their rather large cats doze, and that the entrance to the building must smell of pot-au-feu, cabbage soup, or a country-style cassoulet. Excerpt: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- She continued, with great energy, telling a story about how five people, booked in by the concierge of the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat, never arrived.
- Both the concierge and taxi driver expressed surprise at my choice of activity. Times, Sunday Times
- As he leaves the hotel, he asks the concierge if she can stamp his parking ticket. Times, Sunday Times
- Brocaded concierges are choreographed to look like revolving doors.
- He would ask the concierge to dinner rather than dine alone. Times, Sunday Times
- Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom. Times, Sunday Times
- I reported this problem to our room steward several times and then to the concierge.
- Regardless, there was a concierge who stopped to tell us, or to warn us, that dinner ‘up there’ was pretty expensive.
- It includes a concierge service which keeps my life going smoothly. Times, Sunday Times