doorlet
doorlet noun: a small door.
Noun
doorlet (plural doorlets)
- A small door.
- “ Open thy doorlet, Mistress dear, / Let the darling sun appear. […]”1908 August 15, Robert Haven Schauffler, “Child's Play in Germany”, in The Outlook, volume 89, number 16, page 855
- (Enter a Beggar — he rings the mendicants hell and monk appears at doorlet.)c. 1919, William Henry Seal, “Richard Cœur de Lion”, in Selection from Poems, John Heywood Ltd., Act I, scene II. Entrance to Monastery, page 120
Examples of doorlet in a sentence
- He pulls the doorlet wholly open and plays with the pencil.1921 July, H. de Jong, “Essential Limitation and Subdivision of Idiocy on a Comparative-Psychological Basis”, in The Journal of Nervous and...
- A tail-wag and an ankle slurp for Omaha before she nosed open her private carpet-hung doorlet and went outside to greet the sun.1970, Ramon Sender Morningstar, “Home, Home on El Raucho” (chapter 2), in Zero Weather: A Future Fantasy, The Family Publishing Company...
- Hardly a doorlet near the bottom through which castle guests put out their sollcrets at night to be polished.1984, Deborah Webster Rogers, Chrétien de Troyes, translated by Deborah Webster Rogers, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Columbia...
Forms of doorlet
| plural | doorlets |
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Origin of doorlet
From door + -let.
Questions about doorlet
- What does doorlet mean?
- Doorlet means a small door.
- How do you use doorlet in a sentence?
- He pulls the doorlet wholly open and plays with the pencil.
- What part of speech is doorlet?
- Doorlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of doorlet?
- The plural of doorlet is doorlets.
Words near doorlet in the dictionary
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