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The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

utcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

rm and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in…

tive member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. Bell gable. See under Bell. -- Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end. -- Gable wall. Same as Gable (b). -- Gable window, a window in a gable.

A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

y recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.

A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

A curtain hanging across a doorway.

ries of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potière, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.

A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.

A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.

To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.