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 other Isaurian stood on the threshold, holding the iron bolt in his hand, ready to close the half-door from the inside and draw the bolt as soon as the fugitives had poured in.

From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Felix Dahn

Hanging there by the half-door, Dangling his devil’s foot, Stock-still on the threshold, As if he had taken root!

From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

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

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

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

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

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