noun
- An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber.
- synonyms: usher
- The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Someone who guards an entrance.
- synonyms: doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary
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