half-doors

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of half-door.
  half-door

  noun

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

Example Sentences

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half-doors

Having found refuge they looked out over the half-doors as the car passed, their eyes sparkling, humorous, full of an alert inquisitiveness, their faces fresh as the wind.

From Waysiders by Seumas O'Kelly

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

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 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

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

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