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Definition of Service door
1. Noun. An entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse.
Generic synonyms: Entrance, Entranceway, Entree, Entry, Entryway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Service Door
Literary usage of Service door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"A special Service-door is the next step in advance, as in Plates XVI. and XXV.
... It is necessary, however, to remember that, if a service-door should ..."
2. The Book of Washington by Robert Shackleton (1922)
"But even more closely, for a time, I watched a door in the Senate wing, a service
door, a little heeded and insignificant door. It opened, and a car moved ..."
3. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"The Court refused a rule to show cause why the service of the decía- the stable
ration in ejectment should not be deemed good service. door, no 5. ..."
4. The Practical Book of Architecture by Charles Matlack Price (1916)
"There are still other doors, to closets, perhaps, as well as the service door to
the kitchen. Here mirrors may be used instead of clear glass, ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"In all the pathway from minutest molecule to mightiest monarch, they seek to scan
the source that gives mutuality its beautiful adaptation to service. Door ..."
6. Garden Cities in Theory and Practice: Being an Amplification of a Paper of by Alfred Richard Sennett (1905)
"... the ' service' door of the dining-room. The object of the arrangement is that
conversation during dinner should not be interrupted by noise from ..."