Venetian door
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Venetian door
First recorded in 1725–35
Example Sentences
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Katey softly undid the Venetian door, and Hewitt stood before her.
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A little higher up the street is the fine Venetian door illustrated a few pages back, with columns and pinnacles, and returning wall with elaborately shaped battlements.
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I knew this; and, clutching the Venetian door with firmer grasp, I stood peering through the apertures in stealthy silence.
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Shall call the winds through long arcades to roar, Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door; Conscious they act a true Palladian part.
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