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Portiere

noun
1.
A heavy curtain hung across a doorway.





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"Portiere" Quotes from Famous Books



... with one sweep of his advancing arm Durkin tore the heavy portiere from its curtain-rings, and he stood before them, in the flat white ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... and her cousins conversed for some time on what had happened during the protracted separation, as well as on domestic affairs and their private feelings, when Chia Cheng likewise advanced as far as the other side of the portiere, and inquired after her health, and the Chia consort from inside performed the homage and other conventionalities ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... along," and the boy threw open the parlor doors with a flourish. The room was elaborately trimmed with palms and chrysanthemums, and at one end was a raised platform, like a throne, on which stood a large armchair draped with a red velvet portiere. Above this was a semicircular canopy cleverly made of cornstalks and bunches of grain and up on the very top was the biggest pumpkin you ever saw ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells


Words linked to "Portiere" :   mantle, drapery, pall, drape, curtain


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