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Definition of Commissionaires
1. commissionaire [n] - See also: commissionaire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissionaires
Literary usage of Commissionaires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Berlin and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"For luggage to be conveyed to the station see p. 2. commissionaires ... 60 pf., and
15 pf. for every further 10 min. commissionaires with ..."
2. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"... place of universal resort—Floating population— Securities for strangers—The
commissionaires—Hotels—Their supervision by the police—Furnished apartments ..."
3. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing (1918)
"... 9 police sergeants, 76 police, and a supernumerary contingent of specially
selected men from the Army Reserve and the Corps of commissionaires. ..."
4. Camps, Quarters and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes (1896)
"PARADE OF THE commissionaires 1875 ON a Sunday morning in early June, just before
the church bells begin to ring, there is wont to be held the annual ..."
5. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London & Neighbourhood: Being a Concise by William Collins (1873)
"commissionaires OS MESSENGERS. These are a body of retired soldiers of good
character, who were originally organized in 1859, by Captain Walter. ..."
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