Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The structure forming the skeleton of a paneled door.
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- noun Alternative form of
doorframe .
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Examples
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Then, all at once, the fury left her in one great puff, and she sagged against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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He was returned to prison, and the real torture started: beatings, being tied to the door-frame of his cell, months of isolation.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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"Not going to happen, John," I said through clinched teeth, as Roberta and I sealed the chinks between the door and the foyer door-frame with newspapers.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The Squirrel Amongst the Razors in Occam's Butter Churn Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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"Not going to happen, John," I said through clinched teeth, as Roberta and I sealed the chinks between the door and the foyer door-frame with newspapers.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The Squirrel Amongst the Razors in Occam's Butter Churn Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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He had entered the tiring room unnoticed and was insouciantly lounging against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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He had entered the tiring room unnoticed and was insouciantly lounging against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Then, all at once, the fury left her in one great puff, and she sagged against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Mother, mother the wolf is rattling the door-frame!
Wolfskin 2010
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Macdonald put his other hand up to the door-frame, leaned forward and began to cough.
Archive 2010-03-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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This was done by Stubberud, by fixing the door-frame into the wall in an oblique position just like a cellar-door at home.
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