doored

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There is always the same open-doored, high-ceiled house, with matting on the floors; the same come and go of dark-skinned servants, and the same assembly of men talking horse or business, in raiment that would fatally scandalise a London committee, among files of newspapers from a fortnight to five weeks old.

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  • So I finally get around to clearing out the corner where my new red, glass-doored IKEA Linnarp bookcase—which has been standing, boxed, in my doorway, since September—is supposed to go, and I open the box and start doing my mise en place with the hardware, and what do I find?
  • It was a tall, narrow piece of furniture fully nine feet in height, with a serpentine base and a glass-doored bookcase above. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • Drake had to supervise the course of the ethership while Thomas deployed the sampling bottles mounted to collect the pure ether that would soon be surrounding the ship, using mechanical arms to maneuver them into double-doored lockers. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • Then the man turned to open a wide double-doored window, and a flood of light that was never seen in the tower at Kiamo Ko burned into the room in the mirror. —  SON OF A WITCH
  • There was no sign of the maharaja, although his motorcar stood open-doored on the gravel drive. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
 

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