doorwoman

[ dawr-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural door·wom·en.

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.

Gender Note

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