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- noun Alternative spelling of
house door .
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Examples
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Before he heard again the footboard of the housedoor trail over the threshold as it opened to let him in, before he saw again the table in the kitchen set for supper he would have knelt and confessed.
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Nothing more was said until they stood before the housedoor in the BRUDERSTRASSE.
Maurice Guest 2003
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Before he heard again the footboard of the housedoor trail over the threshold as it opened to let him in, before he saw again the table in the kitchen set for supper he would have knelt and confessed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Before he heard again the footboard of the housedoor trail over the threshold as it opened to let him in, before he saw again the table in the kitchen set for supper he would have knelt and confessed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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At that very moment the soft thud of the closing housedoor sounded through the house.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Before he heard again the footboard of the housedoor trail over the threshold as it opened to let him in, before he saw again the table in the kitchen set for supper he would have knelt and confessed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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He took refuge on the instant in the mint; while I stationed myself inside my housedoor, which I left ajar, setting a boy at watch upon the street to warn me when the pig should leave the mint.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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He took refuge on the instant in the mint; while I stationed myself inside my housedoor, which I left ajar, setting a boy at watch upon the street to warn me when the pig should leave the mint.
LXXXIX 1909
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I expostulated that it was madness to entrust his housedoor to a watchman already twice caught asleep at his post.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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