Definition of "night-porter" [night-porter]

• A porter or an attendant who is on duty at night in a hotel, infirmary, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There was only the night-porter in the hall of the hotel."
• "Half-believing, half-doubting the words of the fortune-teller, this early morning following hard upon her arrival in Heliopolis she slipped from her room, wakened the astounded night-porter of the Desert Palace"
• "Later, when her beloved child wakened the night-porter, Jane Coop, blue with anxiety and cold, most unhygienically closed the window and thankfully padded off to her comfortable bed."