Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The frame or casing which incloses a door, and in which it swings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The surrounding
frame into which adoor shuts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the frame that supports a door
Etymologies
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Examples
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There he tilted his hatbrim to give shade to his eyes and leaned against the doorcase, looking idly out.
Ulysses 2003
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Old Wyat was prowling outside, with a cloth in her hand, pretending to dust the carved doorcase.
Uncle Silas 2003
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A blink of aquamarine through the windows on one side of the pedi mented doorcase suggested a swimming-pool.
A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995
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The lieutenant was striding onwards in full career towards the parlour, which lay at the opposite side of the intervening kitchen, when he somewhat roughly encountered the fair form of Mrs. Teague, which was extended halfway through the doorcase with a view to prevent his egress.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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He stood up, crowbar in hand, and inserted the chisel blade of the implement between the edge of the door and the doorcase.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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There he tilted his hatbrim to give shade to his eyes and leaned against the doorcase, looking idly out.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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A copper train-oil lamp is fastened in the doorcase.
Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm J��hann Sigurj��nsson 1899
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The doorcase is doubtless that made in 1476; but the door, with its gilt nails and other adornments, has disappeared.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Marble was bought for the doorcase, and the door itself was studded with 95 bronze nails, which were gilt, as were also the ring and knocker, and the frame of trellised ironwork (_cancellus_), which hung within the outer door.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Before it was finished he was dozing comfortably against the doorcase.
The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863
qms commented on the word doorcase
A Murphy bed's shy but polite;
In daytime it keeps out of sight.
It hides in a doorcase
To free up some floor space
And only comes out in the night.
May 1, 2016