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Definition of Doormats
1. doormat [n] - See also: doormat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doormats
Literary usage of Doormats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by James John Hissey (1887)
"... Ancient Brass—A Puzzling Inscription— Primitive doormats—Cottagers' Pride in
their Homes—Old English Forests —Sussex Skies and Scenery—'Carrying Coals ..."
2. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1921)
"doormats " sets forth the idea expressed by one of its personages: ". ...
doormats I always call them to myself." " Captain Drew on Leave " is more ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"At the top you went into a little house-like, and everybody was sitting down on
doormats-like, and being shoved through a little door. ..."
4. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"They look like doormats that one has been wiping his feet on, they feel like the
... I've no doubt that as doormats in America they would last a lifetime. ..."
5. Ordered to China: Letters Written from China While Under Commission from the by Wilbur J. Chamberlin, Georgia Louise Chamberlin (1904)
"They look like doormats that one has been wiping his feet on, they feel like the
pneumatic tire of a bicycle, and Heaven and the Chinese only know what they ..."
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