porter's lodge
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porter's lodge (plural porters' lodges)
- A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
- 1819 August 30, Times, page 2:
- The keys... were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge.
- (UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 54:
- ...he walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge... At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
Synonyms edit
- (all): plodge, lodge
- (building): see guardhouse
- (room): see mailroom
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References edit
- “porter, n.¹.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2006.