doorwoman

American  

[dawr-woom-uhn] / ˈdɔrˌwʊm ən /

noun

PLURAL

doorwomen

1. the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.

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Gender

See -woman.

Example Sentences

But handing my vax card to Neumos’ masked-and-gloved doorwoman, who was suitably dressed for a rock show or a hospital room, I couldn’t help but feel like the music world might finally be settling into some sort of “new normal” for the foreseeable future.

From Seattle Times

The second is Cindy Saz, a doorwoman with an encyclopedic knowledge of who’s who below 14th Street.

From New York Times

She said a doorwoman then came over "to tell me the music was 'too rowdy' for me - as if, as a disabled woman, I can only listen to girly pop and, presumably, very sad songs."

From BBC

In a recent interview with Pitchfork, she spoke of her day job, as a doorwoman at a condominium in Philadelphia: “I just look at it as symbolism: Right now, I just dropped a crazy project, and I’m opening doors. I’m breaking the door down.”

From The New Yorker

Over the phone from Philadelphia, Ms. Whack — who works as a condominium doorwoman when she’s not recording and says she does not drink or smoke — was fittingly loopy, interrupting her own remarks with an opera-like falsetto and making nearly 20 seconds of tongue noises while thinking about an answer.

From New York Times