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doorcheek en · NOUN

Etymology

From door + cheek.

Meanings

1. The jamb of a door.
   • The doorcheck on that doorway was loose and the door always banged behind him making him startle 2015, Meyer Levin, Frankie & Johnnie:
   • And dippe a bunch of hyſſope in the blould that is at the doore, and ſprinkle the vppertranſome of the doore therwith, and both the doore cheekes: let none of you goe out of the doore of his houſe til morning. 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodus 12:22, page 186:

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