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单词 commissionaire
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commissionairen.

Brit. /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/, U.S. /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛ(ə)r/
Forms: 1600s– commissionaire, 1700s–1800s commissionnaire, 1800s– comissionaire.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French commissionnaire.
Etymology: < French commissionnaire (see commissioner n.).
1. = commissioner n. 1, 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1641 in the English of a French speaker.With quot. 1920, cf. commissaire n. 1.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one to whom a commission is given
commissary1395
commissioner1414
committee1472
commissionar1496
commissionary1555
commis1573
commissionaire1641
commissionee1647
commissaire1791
commendatary1852
commish1871
1641 Queen Henrietta Maria Let. 19 Aug. in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1852) IV. 50 Counserning the commissionaires it is them that are toe dispatch bussinesse in the Kings absence.
1670 R. Montagu Let. 26 Mar. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 471 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 As for my ordinary allowance, I..think myself extreme ill used by the Commissionaires of the Treasury.
1877 H. S. Ashbee Index Librorum Prohibitorum 196 This post he carried on single handed until May, 1840, when he obtained the assistance of Léon Pillet, royal commissionaire at the theatre since 1838.
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 15 25 This work..is published by the commissionaires of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1920 E. Lèon tr. in S. Johnson Enemy Within vii. 89 I received a visit from a commissionaire of police connected with the Sûreté Générale.
2.
a. A person requested or employed to carry out an assignment or assignments as a messenger, courier, porter, etc.; spec. (in French contexts) (a) a member of a body of men licensed to stand on the street awaiting such commissions from passers-by; (b) a person employed by a hotel to meet and aid travellers (cf. sense 3). Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger
erendrakec825
bodec888
apostlec950
sand1038
sandesman1123
sanderbodec1200
bearer?c1225
errand-bearer?c1225
messenger?c1225
erindeberea1250
sand-manc1275
beadsman1377
herald1377
messagea1382
runnera1382
sendmana1400
interpreter1490
nuntius1534
post1535
pursuivant?1536
nuncius1573
nuncio1587
carrier1594
nunciate1596
mercury1597
chiaus1599
foreranger1612
postera1614
irisa1616
missivea1616
chouse1632
angela1637
caduceator1684
purpose messenger1702
errand-bringer1720
harkara1747
commissionaire1749
carrier pigeon1785
errander1803
errand-porter1818
tchaush1819
card carrier1845
errand-goer1864
choush1866
ghulam1882
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > usher or attendant
huissierc1330
usherc1386
commissionaire1749
check-taker1812
starter1892
hat-check boy1910
hat-check girl1913
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Feb. in Misc. Wks. (1777) III. i. xlvii. 206 You are an excellent commissionaire, and my most dutiful thanks attend you for your care and trouble.
1765 H. Walpole Let. 28 Nov. in Private Corr. (1820) III. 111 Besides being the best friend in the world you are the best commissionnaire in the world.
1789 tr. Friend of Virtue I. 26 He put it in another cover, and sent it by a commissionaire not in his livery, to the door of Madame de Marmonde.
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. iv. 31 I was confoundedly taken in by a rascal of a commissionnaire.
1872 G. W. Dasent Three to One II. 171 You would have sent off a messenger..a commissionaire.
1904 Punch 20 July 53/1 We proceed to the Douane, where we find a Commissionaire with ‘Le Touquet’ engraved on his cap.
1908 tr. E. Gaboriau File No. 113 vii, in Coll. Wks. Gaboriau IV. 1006 He is the commissionaire whose post is at the corner of the Rue Pigalle.
b.
(a) Corps of Commissionaires n. an organization founded in London in 1859 to provide employment for former soldiers and sailors as messengers, porters, guards, etc.; (also, more fully Canadian Corps of Commissionaires) a similar organization founded in Canada in 1925.In Britain, the Corps of Commissionaires now trades as a security company under the name Corps Security. Neither the British nor the Canadian organization currently employs only ex-military personnel.
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1859 Cheshire Observer (Chester) 3 Dec. 7/5 (heading) The Corps of Commissionaires.
1864 All Year Round 18 June 62/1 There is now firmly established such a corps of trusty pensioners ready to be useful in many ways to the people of London and some other of our great cities,..in the Corps of Commissionaires.
1900 Harmsworth Monthly Pict. Mag. Jan. 544/1 From the point of view of the employer also, the arrangements made by the officials of the Corps of Commissionaires are highly advantageous.
1989 Times 8 Feb. 16/1 At football stadia perfectly nice old boyos are bedecked as members of the corps of commissionaires and take on the airs of tinpot dictators.
2014 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 30 Jan. a8 The charger will be used when the city takes possession of an electric car it has ordered for use by the Corps of Commissionaires who carry out bylaw enforcement for the municipality.
(b) A member of either of these organizations.
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society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > members of other specific associations
commissionaire1869
Bundist1907
Wobbly1913
Lightmonger1954
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried
livery attendant1599
liveryman1616
livery1628
livery servanta1685
commissionaire1869
1869 Morning Post 16 Dec. 7/6 [A person] described as a messenger, was..charged with fraudulently imitating the dress of a commissionaire.
1900 Harmsworth Monthly Pict. Mag. Jan. 544/2 In addition to their providing a pecuniary guarantee for the honesty of the Commissionaire, the corps also undertakes to find a substitute for him in case of sickness.
2014 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 14 Aug. a4 Prior to becoming a commissionaire, DesRoches served in the military for many years.
3. A uniformed attendant at the entrance of a theatre, hotel, large shop, etc.; a doorman. Cf. sense 2a(b).
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper
doorwardc950
gate-wardc1000
porter?a1300
ostiary?a1475
portitor1480
doorkeeper1535
gatekeeper1572
janitora1640
conciergea1697
hall-keeper1705
durwan1773
commissioner1820
lodge-keeper1855
doorman1858
lodge-man1892
commissionaire1895
dvornik1903
linkman1939
1895 A. Roberts & R. Morton Adventures A. Roberts x. 122 I quietly returned to the theatre, and had time to tell the story to the commissionaire.
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim vi. 109 The commissionaire at the Piccadilly entrance of the restaurant touched his hat ingratiatingly.
1970 Oxf. Mail 11 July 3/1 The case would have hinged on the evidence of an independent witness, Mr. Rolfe, commissionaire of Holyoake Hall, Headington.
2010 A. Shand King of Thieves p. x Only the uniformed figure of the commissionaire stood between them and the rich interior.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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