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Definition of Doorways
1. doorway [n] - See also: doorway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorways
Literary usage of Doorways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"doorways.— Apartments.—Circular Mass of Masonry.—Mysterious Chamber. ...
doorways.—Carved Lintels.—Jambs ornamented with Sculptured Figures—Corridors. ..."
2. The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of by Jeffrey S. Soles (1992)
"doorways (Fig. 80) doorways are found in a majority of, but by no means all, ...
Unlike the trilithon doorways of tholos tombs, they are constructed in ..."
3. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VI THE doorways OF TEMPLES 1. FOR the doorways of temples and their
casings the rules are as follows, first determining of what style they are to be ..."
4. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"Even more superb are the fifteenth and sixteenth century gabled doorways of ...
In the same way thirteenth-century doorways were reset at Louth and ..."
5. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"Egyptian doorways were generally surmounted by the usual cornice t, but" many
were decorated according to the taste of the person of ..."
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