half-door
- a word derived from door.
Example Sentences
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She then helped Beverly Nason, 84, who was waiting behind a swinging half-door and said her 87-year-old husband, William, had not received his ballot.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2020
And with that, the half-door opens – it is my father, bright and smiling.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018
She didn’t say another word to Zeke and she very pointedly did not hand it over the half-door shelf to him, so he had to reach up awkwardly and lift it all down himself.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
One window without glass but closed by a wooden shutter with the open upper half-door served to light it in the daytime, while the glimmer of a dog-fish-oil lamp was the illumination at night.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
She leaned heavily against the half-door of the room, and swung the ponderous axe.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix
