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

“What do you think of the weather?” said Padna Dan to Micus Pat, as he leaned over the half-door, and looked up at the sky.

From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by Seumas O'Brien

Turning aside to a miserable hovel on the road, he unbolted the half-door, fastened his rein to the latch, and with a Dhieu-a-uth, or "God save you," entered the hut.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

I found it a most picturesque collection of crooked streets and quaint houses, and my advent was frankly treated as a great event by the gossips leaning over their half-doors.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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

Narrow half-doors, the tops being absent, were set in the face of the building at intervals.

From The Book of All-Power by Edgar Wallace

These are shut up at night by two half-doors, of which the upper one serves as a shield from the sun by day and the lower as a pair of steps.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis

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