Middlemarch vocabulary

11 architecture terms

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11 [architecture] words
back-kitchen
bow window
belvedere
chancel
doorstone
palisade
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doorstone

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Definition:
(dated) The stone forming a threshold; a doorstep.

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‘Well, Mr. Earnshaw,’ she cried, ‘I wonder what you’ll have agait next? Are we going to murder folk on our very door-stones?

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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it was Saturday morning, when there was a general scrubbing of doors and door-stones, and when it was useless to go into the school.

George Eliot. Middlemarch
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