(n.) One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Example Sentences:
(1) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(2) Similarly, Facebook’s recent experimentation with its AI concierge, M, could lead to Zuckerberg having a more natural-language conversation with his own Jarvis than he’d be able to create on his own.
(3) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(4) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(5) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(6) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
(7) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
(8) "As One Commercial Street is located on the edge of the City, we have built a product that appeals to this market of young professionals and families who want to live close to their place of work and enjoy the benefits of a full concierge service and hotel style lobby, which they pay a premium for through their service charge.
(9) "The difficulty is, and this is what the developers will say, is that the high charges, the concierge charges, the charges for all the services in the building, cannot always be met in a uniform way by all the tenants, and that's why they make this case for dual access."
(10) His father, a former soldier, took work where he could find it – in a biscuit factory, as a concierge; his mother worked as a cleaner at the local bus station.
(11) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
(12) The development, which arrived in London at around the same time as the Bank's governor, is made up of four smart, concierge-served blocks of mainly one- and two-bedroom flats.
(13) There is luxury marble tiling and plush sofas, and a sign on the door alerts residents to the fact that the concierge is available.
(14) A concierge will do "anything from booking their flights to putting cartons of milk in their fridges", as the sales manager Alexander von Albert sells it.
(15) Not everything in the magazine is available on the Net-A-Porter website, but the firm promises to help shoppers find a way to buy most items, with links to brands' own websites or a concierge service.
(16) 5by (Free) Styling itself as a “video concierge”, this app is the work of website StumbleUpon, promising to provide a stream of web videos based on your interests, current mood and the time of day.
(17) A concierge at the Plaza on Monday referred questions to a spokeswoman, who subsequently declined to comment.
(18) Each hut will be made up of two traditional-looking huts cleverly joined together, allowing sleeping room for between four and six people, with one bedroom, fitted kitchen, bathroom, sitting area and 24-hour concierge service.
(19) Even banana republics have cash: it just ends up in the hands of a very few people – ask the bank managers of Switzerland or the hotel concierges of Paris.
(20) In 2012, when Songza relaunched its service with its "Music Concierge" option for contextual playlists, it was pioneering, and its steady growth in the US – it had 5.5 million active users by the end of 2013 – was the spur for those bigger rivals to introduce similar features.
Foyer
Definition:
(n.) A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
(n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(2) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(3) Alan arrived on his own and we greeted each other in the foyer.
(4) Far from the initial foyer, the spreading seems mostly done through airways.
(5) After the election, Gove took this all down and put this 19th-century pupil writing desk in the foyer.
(6) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(7) In the foyer, the gunman looked directly at a man working behind the bar who ducked and shielded a woman working with him from shots, he told Kolek afterwards.
(8) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(9) The imposing foyer, which links them, is an exhibition space.
(10) The union has stressed the need for peaceful protest to its 33,000 members; last night saw the vice-chancellor Michael Arthur, chair of the Russell Group and a big player in national university politics, hold one of his regular Q&A sessions in the union foyer.
(11) When the council took the decision – with its landlord East Thames Housing – that 30 families were ready to move from the Focus E15 Foyer in Stratford, we should have engaged with them from the start, planned how we would support their next steps and worked with them individually.
(12) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(13) The restriction of smoking to a foyer area outside the office complex resulted in a slow but eventual reduction in nicotine concentrations in the office complex.
(14) Foyers are a French idea developed in the UK in the 1990s by the housing charity Shelter and drinks giant Diageo.
(15) Arctic Monkeys were one of the first to play Ibiza Rocks in 2007, and their debut album seems to be on constant repeat in the foyer, which feels appropriate given the residents checking each other out around the pool, thinking something along the lines of: "I bet you look good on the dancefloor..." There is a small supermarket next door, over half of which is given over to alcohol.
(16) Busy foyers, unexpected music, lights going up and down and applause can all be unsettling.
(17) Once Galloway and Wilson have left the stage, the former takes up residence in the foyer, where he signs copies of two books that shine a light on his singular politics: his Fidel Castro Handbook, and his account of the sectarian ugliness experienced by the Celtic manager, Neil Lennon .
(18) Drew had tried his absolute best to have this reading come through, inasmuch as he had emailed details of Toby and how he died to Sally's website and had left notes (so-called "love letters") in a box in the foyer just before the show.
(19) The rest, in residential care homes, foyers or other arrangements, are often the most vulnerable, but simultaneously the least likely to be told of their rights, or offered care and support on saving care.
(20) I'm standing in the foyer, and I can hear a huge crowd laughing.