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nounhalf-door (plural half-doors)
plural half-doors
- Synonym of Dutch door, a stable door, especially when the top half is open.
Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164Synonyms: Dutch door
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nounSynonym of Dutch door, a stable door, especially when the top half is open.
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