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door·wom·an

 (dôr′wo͝om′ən)
n.
A woman employed to attend the entrance of a hotel, apartment house, or other building.
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doorwoman

(ˈdɔːˌwʊmən)
n, pl -women
(Professions) a female employed to attend the door of a building
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They encounter what appears to be an assault by a doorwoman. Until they hear her version of events
Al-Bendari said that in the past he used to come and enter freely on Fridays because that's when the doorwoman or bawaba would go to church.
Obedience the doorwoman may look undutiful and sluggish, but though "in waiting nothing seems more slow, / Nothing [is] more quick when she doth go" (15-16).
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The character of Benedetta Esposito, the Neapolitan portinaia (a doorwoman who stereotypically makes it a point to know everyone in "her" building, a busybody in charge of enforcing condominium rules), reminds readers of the 1960s and 70s, when the pace of internal migrations that began after the war accelerated and redefined the human landscape of Italian cities.
When Angel/a sheds her/his male skin upon her/his mother's death, s/he simultaneously enters the sheltered stage of her/his life, where social interactions are limited to sporadic word exchange with the doorwoman of the apartment building.
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At night she's a doorwoman at a Shrewsbury nightclub.
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