Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a door.

Etymologies

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door +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Like Buddakan, the night before, the restaurant is packed, and its large, doorlike windows are open and the sidewalk traffic is teeming and almost blending into the restaurant.

    The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009

  • Like Buddakan, the night before, the restaurant is packed, and its large, doorlike windows are open and the sidewalk traffic is teeming and almost blending into the restaurant.

    The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009

  • At the front end was a most beautiful window, opening doorlike upon a tiny iron bird-cage of a balcony, hung up Southern fashion under the roof of the pillared front porch.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • Nothing can be less like a _chiton_ or smock, loose or tight, than either the double-bellied huge shield, the tower-shaped cylindrical shield, or the flat, doorlike shield, covering body and legs in Mycenaean art.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

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