door-frames

The door-frames, like the window-frames, were richly carved; the fireplace was in the same massive style, and the mantelpiece projected with a mass of very rich carving.

Uncle Silas 2003

Doors and windows, door-frames and window-frames, even steps of the stairs, were carried off.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Note, that all loose flaps to drawers or door-frames, in best cabinet-work, should be worked and fitted by "Dust-joint" planes.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

It is used in joinery, as in door-frames, but not in carpentry.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

Some had curiously carved door-frames and mantels, with parlors wainscoted clear up to the ceiling, and heavy mouldings wherever they could be put in.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

If a giant, bending his great head, had leaped through one of the heavy door-frames she would have thought it quite to be expected!

Keineth Jane Abbott

Thyrsis learned the mysteries of window-sills and door-frames, the excitements of

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

The door-frames of the houses -- symbols of the entrance into a new life -- were to be sprinkled with blood. 3 Later, the imagery of the saving power of the blood of the Lamb became more popular, more highly colored.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

I groped around, and felt my way by chairs and railings and door-frames, though I needn't have touched one of 'em.

Raspberry Jam Carolyn Wells 1902

All crystal chandeliers, and old frescoed walls and ceilings, and elaborate door-frames.

Patty's Success Carolyn Wells 1902