half-door

American  

[haf-dawr] / ˈhæfˌdɔr /

noun

• half-doors
  plural

1. a door that fills only the top or bottom half of the doorway.

2. either the top or the bottom half of a Dutch door.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• half-doors
  plural

Example Sentences

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half-door half-doors

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

The box was closed by a half-door, with an aperture above facing towards the road.

From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by L. P. Jacks

Ermine was standing, as she spoke, by the half-door, her eyes fixed on the fleecy clouds which were floating across the blue summer sky.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

The doors were merely half-doors of escape, parts of larger ones.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

"Grosvenor Crescent," says Tom, shutting the half-doors with a bang, and shouting his orders through the little hole in the top.

From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville

The peasant women stood at the half-doors, the men stood here and there.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The railway carriages are a curious combination of English, Swiss and American construction, being divided into compartments, which are separated by swinging half-doors, like those which used to be associated with saloons.

From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

The houses on either side were, for the most part, dingy-looking edifices, with half-doors, and such pretensions to being shops as the display of a quart of meal, salt, or string of red peppers confers.

From Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established by John R. (John Roy) Musick