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doorside en · ADJ
Etymology
From door + -side.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Beside a door.
Startled by the fury of his own unforeseen vengeance, he groped over to the doorside switch, turned on the light and opened the hallway door.
2000, Patrick R. Penland, Hosteled Prodigal: Beyond Laundered Morality, page 300:
doorside en · NOUN
Etymology
From door + -side.
Meanings
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The area beside a door.
And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
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