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Screen door   /skrin dɔr/   Listen
Screen door

noun
1.
A door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door.  Synonym: screen.






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"Screen door" Quotes from Famous Books



... front porch, flattening his nose against the screen door and sniffing the fragrant ...
— Brother and Sister • Josephine Lawrence

... first week of September Mrs. Wheeler was in the kitchen making cucumber pickles, when she heard Claude's car coming back from Frankfort. In a moment he entered, letting the screen door slam behind him, and threw a bundle ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather

... strips up to the roof and this enabled us to fill in by cutting and turning in the cloth. A corresponding space above the window received similar treatment. Then we covered the inner surface of the screen door and we had ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... frightened tender fervor; and do not laugh, dear reader; for it is only on the stage that the graceful altogether elegant curtain-drop comes; but the old frontiersman had somehow got himself outside the screen door, and immediately on that kiss came through the mosquito wire such a thunder clap of pulpit artillery as is the peculiar prerogative of some large gentlemen when they blow their nose. MacDonald and Eleanor both burst out laughing; and Eleanor noticed it was a ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... is splendid." And Grant, taking his young charge from his shoulder, stepped up on to the porch and knocked at the screen door. ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead



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