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swing door en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of swinging door.
    • The swing-doors which opened on to his dining-room creaked[.] 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44:
    • The thudding rhythm and the sour-sweet smell rocked them as they pushed through the heavy curtains inside the swing door. The eyes of the hat-check girls glowed and beckoned. 1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 54:

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swing doors Number=Plur lexicographic