doorlet

plural doorlets

1. uncommonA small door.

   “ Open thy doorlet, Mistress dear, / Let the darling sun appear. […]”

   1908 August 15, Robert Haven Schauffler, “Child's Play in Germany”, in The Outlook, volume 89, number 16, page 855

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   (Enter a Beggar — he rings the mendicants hell and monk appears at doorlet.)

   c. 1919, William Henry Seal, “Richard Cœur de Lion”, in Selection from Poems, John Heywood Ltd., Act I, scene II. Entrance to Monastery, page 120

   I now open the door by putting him through. He pulls the doorlet wholly open and plays with the pencil.

   1921 July 29, H. de Jong, “Essential Limitation and Subdivision of Idiocy on a Comparative-Psychological Basis”, in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 54, number 1, page 11

   Instead of covering with wax — hardly an ideal solution — there sometimes came into use the device of placing, over the orifice through which the Divine Name appears, a kind of doorlet the wings of which could, as occasion demanded, be closed or opened.

   1970, Franz Landsberger, “The Origin of the Decorated Mezuzah”, in Joseph Gutmann, editor, Beauty in Holiness: Studies in Jewish Customs and Ceremonial Art, KTAV Publishing House, page 474

   A tail-wag and an ankle slurp for Omaha before she nosed open her private carpet-hung doorlet and went outside to greet the sun.

   1970, Ramon Sender Morningstar, “Home, Home on El Raucho” (chapter 2), in Zero Weather: A Future Fantasy, The Family Publishing Company, page 7

   Upon which he terminated confessing me and the doorlet of the confessional closed, and out I went before I had time to realize what had happened, but feeling lighter, so much lighter than when I went in. For, from his words, I understood that I was spiritually at peace with God.

   1981 [1969 November 29], Clarice Bruno, Roads to Padre Pio, 7th edition, National Centre for Padre Pio, page 80