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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In bridges, that part of the construction which is immediately concerned with the floor, as the pavement, stringers, and floor-beams, and in railroad-bridges also the ties, rails, and guard-rails: used in distinction to the trusses or arches, whose function it is to support the floorway.

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Examples

  • After a while he became aware that the new officer was still standing in the floorway.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • After a while he became aware that the new officer was still standing in the floorway.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • After a while he became aware that the new officer was still standing in the floorway.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • The prophets in that land have cast a destiny of her child, and say she shall shine forth as the moon, terrible as the sun; that she shall tread with dignity the floorway of a great temple, and shall minister at its altar; that she shall rise to the greatest eminence, and ---- '

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • If thus it comes to pass, I will live well and move onward to the great Dream City, and stand upon the diamond floorway which leads to the altar steps of the

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • Temple of the goddess, shall become a wreck, and its splendour be rent in pieces and distributed amongst the nations, its floorway be covered with the dust of centuries, and its very site be questioned in the minds of men.

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • We shall join hands on the diamond floorway which circles the city of God.

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • super cool, do the drapes match the colorway of the sisal floorway?

    Green With Envy: Destroy the Enemy, Save the World BikeSnobNYC 2009

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