churchdoor

plural churchdoors

1. alternativeAlternative form of church door.

   . . . when the man came through the churchdoor on a scruffy Mule, […]

   1981, Suzette Haden Elgin, Twelve Fair Kingdoms (republished in The Ozark Trilogy), page 4

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   Without this previous knowledge we should be utterly unable to account for the presence of Orpheus charming the beasts, as a Christian allegory in the catacombs; of "Sigurd Fafni's bane" and the dragon on churchdoors in Norway; or of King Tidrik and the drake on churchdoors in Iceland; […]

   1876, “Notes of the Survival of Pagan Customs in Christian Bural”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume 11, page 365

   She went in at the open door, always kept open, as churchdoors should be, […]

   1878 February, in the Churchman's Shilling Magazine, volume 22, part 132

   […] in Bracton's time, as in Glanvil's time, the churchdoor covenant might always be made to include the husband's future acquisitions as well as his present possessions. […] For wherever the husband had named at the churchdoor a definite piece of land as her dower, her claim became indefeasible; […]

   1879, Courtney Stanhope Kenny, The history of the law of England as to the effects of marriage on property, page 48