janitoriat

Noun

janitoriat (countable and uncountable, plural janitoriats)

1. The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.
   • His narrator starkly conjures up the deadly class structure there, including “the pigs — the janitoriat of administrators and guards”; the urkas, “socially friendly elements” who did no work; “the snakes,” otherwise known as informants; and the “politicals,” or so-called fascists, like himself and...2007 January 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Love, Bludgeoned and Bent by the Camps”, in New York Times