Meaning of doorlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A small door.

uncommon

Examples

““ Open thy doorlet, Mistress dear, / Let the darling sun appear. […]””

“(Enter a Beggar — he rings the mendicants hell and monk appears at doorlet.)”

“I now open the door by putting him through. He pulls the doorlet wholly open and plays with the pencil.”

“Instead of covering with wax — hardly an ideal solution — there sometimes came into use the device of placing, over the orifice through which the Divine Name appears, a kind of doorlet the wings of which could, as occasion demanded, be closed or opened.”

“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.”

“Upon which he terminated confessing me and the doorlet of the confessional closed, and out I went before I had time to realize what had happened, but feeling lighter, so much lighter than when I went in. For, from his words, I understood that I was spiritually at peace with God.”

“6. “Up through the window.” One wonders how this door was made. Hardly a doorlet near the bottom through which castle guests put out their sollcrets at night to be polished. A Dutch door open at the bottom?”

“There is an Alice in Wonderland-type doorlet set into the brick, through which one can see the wooden spiral staircase — but here our wonderfully developed sense of self-preservation took over, and we refrained from exploring any higher.”

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