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doorplate

[ dawr-pleyt, dohr- ]

noun

  1. a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of doorplate1

First recorded in 1815–25; door + plate 1
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Example Sentences

“If you don't swing, don't ring,” read a brass doorplate at the original Playboy Mansion in Chicago, a 48-room abode where Hefner reveled with bevies of Playmates on a rotating, circular bed.

Emergency generators are installed in buildings’ basements with flood prevention measures including temporary metal walls and automatic doorplates.

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The accuracy of the props—from congressional doorplates to visitors’ badges—is much discussed, and praised.

Those on F deck and the one aft on the Orlop deck were of similar type, but had cast-iron doorplates of heavy section, strongly ribbed.

They are a great doorplate, giving the names of the family.

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