0 a person wearing a uniform who stands at the entrance of a hotel, theatre, etc. and whose job is to open the door for guests and generally be helpful to them when they arrive
From time to time, the receptionist, commissionaire or whoever it is, may have to deal with someone whose presence in the building is not welcome and fulfil guard-type duties.
You are thinking of a commissionaire.
The messengers and commissionaires are, however, more largely drawn from this class.
That includes heat and may also include a commissionaire.
They go into industry in most cases, or become commissionaires and so forth.
There should be a commissionaire allowing people to enter or not enter as the case may be.
Many are simply in the streets doing commissionaire's work at clubs.
In addition to these there are two interpreters and a further temporary staff of eighteen persons, including commissionaires, women typists, etc.
