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A bouncer with manners, paid to remember your name and forget your guests.
means A person stationed at a building's entrance to greet, screen, assist, and let people in or out.
from Plainly compounded from door and man in the late 1800s, when apartment buildings grew grand enough to need a uniformed human threshold.
Status symbolA doorman building signals wealth before the rent does.
Unofficial dutiesPackage guardian, gossip vault, cab summoner, alibi witness.
Hat originBrimmed caps borrowed from military and hotel livery.