housedoor

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See also: house-door, and house door

English

Noun

housedoor (plural housedoors)

  1. Alternative spelling of house door
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 368:
      Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, chapter I, in Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC, page 63:
      He stood sideways in the kitchen doorway, looking at Watt, and Watt saw the housedoor open behind him []
    • 1992, Christopher A. Faraone, Talismans and Trojan horses: guardian statues in ancient Greek myth and ritual, page 8:
      No identifiable remains of these housedoor guardians or their bases have been detected in situ on archaeological sites, but, as in the case of the niches in city gates, a shallow recess off the street in front of the housedoor (a common feature in the classical period) seems ideally suited for statuettes, []