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baize doors

baize doors is the plural of baize door.

Meaning of baize door

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

Questions about baize doors

What is baize doors the plural of?
Baize doors is the plural of baize door.

Words near baize doors in the dictionary

  1. Baiz
  2. baiza
  3. baizas
  4. baize
  5. baize door
  6. baize doors
  7. baized
  8. baizes
  9. baizing
  10. baizuo
  11. baizuos

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