gate-porter's

Updated: May 16, 2025

They proceeded at once towards their horses and mounted them, but Bigot felt deadly faint and halted under a tree while Cadet rode back to the porter's lodge and roused up old Marcele to give him some brandy, if he had any, "as of course he had," said Cadet. Brandy was a gate-porter's inside livery, the lining of his laced coat which he always wore.

William Kirby - The Golden Dog