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English
Etymology
From door + stead.
Noun
doorstead (plural doorsteads)
- (obsolete) The entrance or place of a door.
- February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
- I replied , "did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men"
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