Doorkeeper Definition

doorkeeper
noun
  1. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
  2. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  3. someone who guards an entrance

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