Definition of Doormats

1. Noun. (plural of doormat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doormats

1. doormat [n] - See also: doormat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doormats

doorknobs
doorknock
doorknocked
doorknocker
doorknockers
doorknocking
doorknocks
doorless
doorlike
doorline
doorlock
doormaker
doormakers
doorman
doormat
doormats (current term)
doormen
doorn
doornail
doornails
doorns
doorpeople
doorperson
doorpersons
doorplate
doorplates
doorpost
doorposts
doors
doorsill

Literary usage of Doormats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by James John Hissey (1887)
"... Ancient Brass—A Puzzling Inscription— Primitive doormats—Cottagers' Pride in their Homes—Old English Forests —Sussex Skies and Scenery—'Carrying Coals ..."

2. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1921)
"doormats " sets forth the idea expressed by one of its personages: ". ... doormats I always call them to myself." " Captain Drew on Leave " is more ..."

3. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"At the top you went into a little house-like, and everybody was sitting down on doormats-like, and being shoved through a little door. ..."

4. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"They look like doormats that one has been wiping his feet on, they feel like the ... I've no doubt that as doormats in America they would last a lifetime. ..."

5. Ordered to China: Letters Written from China While Under Commission from the by Wilbur J. Chamberlin, Georgia Louise Chamberlin (1904)
"They look like doormats that one has been wiping his feet on, they feel like the pneumatic tire of a bicycle, and Heaven and the Chinese only know what they ..."

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