dvornikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dvornik (複数形 dvorniks)

1. (archaic) A doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household
   • 1901, Maxim Gorky, The Man Who Was Afraid:

     Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung. I will pay you.

   • 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes:

     He reached the doorway of his house in a state of mental discouragement which enabled him to receive with apparent indifference an official-looking envelope from the dirty hand of the dvornik.

   • 1912, Mary Antin, Promised Land:

     My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile.

参照

• The Oxford English Dictionary