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

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

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

"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

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

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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