double-barred

• “Scundoo smiled yet more wan and gray, closed the door on the heels of his departing visitor, and barred and double-barred it.”

  THE MASTER OF MYSTERY

• “My posts are more like leering eyes through the food slot in the double-barred door or a flaming bag left on the doorstep.”

  Apology of a Madman

• “We took a turn and came to a control booth, a set of double-barred doors.”

  Simon & Schuster: Change of Heart

• “Honey Farm had a double-barred gate, which had been left open.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deadly Intent

• “For example, with reference to the second puzzle (Section 1.2), Smith and Varzi (2000) have a double-barred theory that is of type (2) with respect to bona fide boundaries and of type (4) with respect to fiat boundaries.”

  Boundary

• “There is no sense that an unsolicited piece, no matter how well written, would ever see the light of day in this double-barred closed shop.”

  BBC Bans Emily Maitlis Spectator Column

• “But having a tolerable night on Thursday, I was a good deal better on Friday, and on Saturday got up, and ate a little spoon-meat, and my feverishness seemed to be gone; and I was so mended by evening, that I begged her indulgence in my closet, to be left to myself; which she consented to, it being double-barred the day before, and”

  Pamela

• “The windows dark and double-barred, the tops boarded up to save mending; and only a little four-paned eyelet-hole of a casement to let in air; more, however, coming in at broken panes than could come in at that.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Tour de France director Jean-Marie le Blanc laid a memorial wreath at the massive stone monument topped by a double-barred”

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• “We walked down the corridor to the hydraulically operated double-barred doors that gave onto the booking room, where two black women were being fingerprinted.”

  Simon & Schuster: Neon Rain

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