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单词 jib-door
释义 jib-door
[Origin unascertained.]
A door flush with the wall in which it stands, and usually painted or papered so as to be indistinguishable from it.
1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 159 Emma..darted out through a gib-door, covered with pictures, which had struck her eye while he was speaking.1820–22W. H. Pyne Wine & Walnuts (1824) II. ix. 132 The delighted bookseller opened a jib door..that went from the side of the shop to a steep narrow staircase.1852Lomax & Gunyon Encycl. Archit. s.v., The use of a jib-door is to preserve the symmetry of an apartment, where only one door is wanted, nearer to one end of the partition than the other.
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