英和和英

語源

French, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner.

名詞

commissionaire (複数形 commissionaires)

1. One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
2. (Britain) A uniformed doorman.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     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.