barn door
the door of a barn
informal a target so large that it cannot be missed
photog television theatre an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
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How to use barn door in a sentence
Facebook has—to fracture an old phrase—just closed the barn door after a billion cows already departed the premises.
The piece begins with a wooden barn door pierced with two inconspicuous peepholes.
Birds were chirping in the orchard trees, and there was the scarcely less pleasant sound of barn-door fowls near at hand.
David Fleming's Forgiveness | Margaret Murray Robertson"Take off that old barn-door hat, Landy, so we can see what ye got," called someone from the walk.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyFriedrich cautiously rises; dresses; takes his money, his new red roquelaure, unbolts the Barn-door, and walks out.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle
After a while, at the barn door there was a familiar flash of white and yellow.
The Calico Cat | Charles Miner ThompsonDorothy then went in, leaving the boys at the great barn door.
Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] | Jacob Abbott
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