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ˈprison-ˈdoor
The door of a prison. lit. or fig.
a1300Cursor M. 19305 Þe angel..Þe prisun dors lefte als he fand. a1450Myrc Festial 81 He openyd þe pryson-dyrre, and bade hym go. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 67 The particles of fire, that are shut up in several bodies, will easily flie abroad, when by a further degree of relaxation you shake off their chains, and open the prison-doors. 1869W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 26 The man that was condemned walks out free through the opened prison-doors. |