portiere

• One evening when the portiere was bathing Chopin's feet, he—who had in the meantime been communicated with—talked to her about her hair and asked her to let him cut off one lock. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2
• I wanted to be alone, so to the dressing room I went, and with face buried in a portiere was sobbing my very breath away when Mrs. Pierce, wife of Major Pierce, came in and said so sweetly and sympathetically: ;Don't cry, dear; Hal is following the car and the conductor is going to stop the train. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
• But the portiere is made with a large worsted needle and will give me pleasant work for the evening. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
• Then the portiere was drawn aside to let some one come through: at the same moment Lind caught a brief glimpse of a number of men sitting round a small table The person who now appeared, and whom Lind saluted with great respect, was a little, sallow-complexioned man, with an intensely black beard and mustache, and a worn expression of face. —  Sunrise
• Presently the portiere was drawn aside, and the little sallow-complexioned man whom he had seen on the previous evening entered the room. —  Sunrise

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