foredoor

Definitions

A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.

Examples

“This morning the great foredoor quite open⟳, dancing backwards and forwards with all its weight upon the lower hinge, which must have⟳ been broken if the dean had not accidentally come⟳ and relieved it.”

“All the pewter is thrown about the kitchen.” But when they looked, all the pewter stood in its place⟳. There then was a loud knocking at the back-door. My father opened it, but saw⟳ nothing. It was then at the foredoor. He opened that : but it was still lost labour.”

“I begged, prayed, would have⟳ kneeled to him: But all was in vain: The tyger-hearted man, as Mr. Greville had truly called him, muffled me up in it, and by force⟳ carried me thro' a long entry to the foredoor.”

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