concierge
/ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/ noun C1- An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
- One who offers a bespoke level of service in any of various industries. · concierge banking (that is, private banking) concierge medicine concierge service
- A nurse who provides support during fertility treatment.
- One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
Plural concierges
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Though answered in the negative, he begged so earnestly to be permitted to visit those on the fifth floor, that, in despite of the oft-repeated assurance of the concierge that they were occupied, Dantès succeeded in inducing the man to go up to the tenants, and ask permission for a gentleman to be allowed to look at them.
Then, should anything appear to merit a more minute examination, Albert de Morcerf could follow up his researches by means of a small gate, similar to that close to the concierge’s door, and which merits a particular description.
This door was a mockery to the concierge, from whose vigilance and jurisdiction it was free, and, like that famous portal in the Arabian Nights, opening at the “Sesame” of Ali Baba, it was wont to swing backward at a cabalistic word or a concerted tap from without from the sweetest voices or whitest fingers in the world.
A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.
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