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ˈside-door
[side n.1 Cf. Fris. syddoar, MDu. zijtdore (Du. zijdeur), G. seitentür.]
1. a. A door in the side of a building, garden, or the like; a door on one side of, or subsidiary to, the main door.
1535Coverdale 1 Kings vi. 34 Ether dore had two syde dores one hanginge to another. 1611Bible Susanna 18 They..went out themselues at priuie doors [marg. Or, side doores] to fetch the things. 1820Scott Monast. xxiv, Christie of the Clinthill..emerged at that instant from the side-door under the archway. 1855Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 265 The clerk, opening a small side-door. 1894Outing XXIV. 230/2 In a..fruitless search for some side-door entrance to a shop or restaurant.
b. fig.
1930Times 21 Mar. 15/5 We maintain that these ‘side door’ credits are endangering our chances of securing recognition of our bonds. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 676/1 The proposed conference on Cambodia—an attempt to settle Vietnam through a side-door—may prove abortive.
2. side-door Pullman N. Amer. slang (chiefly Tramps'), a railway goods wagon with sliding doors in the sides, a box-car; a freight car.
1887M. Roberts Western Avernus xvii. 237 When the engine..started out, I lighted a match and took a look at my..travelling carriage, or ‘side-door Pullman’, as the ‘tramps’..facetiously call them. 1918R. W. Lardner Treat 'em Rough 10 If they didn't have all the luck in the world they would be rideing [sic] around the country in a side door Pullman with all their baggage on. 1927L. F. Ranlett Let's Go 34 A train of ‘side-door Pullmans’..drew up at the railway station. |