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plural commissionaires
One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc. examples
(Britain) A uniformed doorman. quotations examples
When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing
(law) An undisclosed agent under European civil law. examples