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Usher

means a porter. (Old French, muisher, a door; whence huissier, an usher; Latin, ostiarius.) One who stands at the door to usher visitors into the presence. (Scotch, Wishart.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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