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baize door

baize door noun: a door with a baize surface attached to deaden noise, traditionally separating the servants' quarters from the main part of a house.

Noun

baize door (plural baize doors)

  1. (historical) A door with a baize surface attached to deaden noise, traditionally separating the servants' quarters from the main part of a house.
    • Through the french windows they went, into the drawing room where Miss Cecily looked up in surprise from her book; through the baize door into the world that had always before welcomed her so happily. Mr Parkinson marched her straight into the kitchen, to the astonishment of Matchett, Sarah and the...1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84

Forms of baize door

pluralbaize doors

Questions about baize door

What does baize door mean?
Baize door means a door with a baize surface attached to deaden noise, traditionally separating the servants' quarters from the main part of a house.
What part of speech is baize door?
Baize door is a noun.
What is the plural of baize door?
The plural of baize door is baize doors.

Words near baize door in the dictionary

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  2. Baiz
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  4. baizas
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  6. baize door
  7. baize doors
  8. baized
  9. baizes
  10. baizing
  11. baizuo

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