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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