In niches, or doorless cup-boards; stood curious-looking vases and pots.
Back of him was a doorless exit, which gave on to a dark passage.
By incredible luck no shell came through the doorless openings and rooms behind us; they struck the inner wall and roof.
It has a window without panes, and a doorless doorway, and yet a marvellous structure both in workmanship and usefulness.
He told her he was going to demand the girl who lived in the doorless house on the mountain.
The inner room was doorless, and the outer door was thrown back and dilapidated.
Raul dismounted in front of a doorless hut, and began to pull off his corn sack, tugging at the leather thongs and henequen cords.
When they had last seen it it had been windowless, doorless and the roof at the rear had been but temporarily patched.
There was no light nor any sign of life within as they crept silently through the doorless doorway.
They paused at the foot of a lofty tower, doorless and windowless, with no visible access of any kind.
Middle English merger of Old English dor (neuter; plural doru) "large door, gate," and Old English duru (fem., plural dura) "door, gate, wicket;" both from Proto-Germanic *dur- (cf. Old Saxon duru, Old Norse dyrr, Danish dør, Old Frisian dure, Old High German turi, German Tür).
The Germanic words are from PIE *dhwer- "a doorway, a door, a gate" (cf. Greek thura, Latin foris, Gaulish doro "mouth," Gothic dauro "gate," Sanskrit dvárah "door, gate," Old Persian duvara- "door," Old Prussian dwaris "gate," Russian dver' "a door").
The base form is frequently in dual or plural, leading to speculation that houses of the original Indo-Europeans had doors with two swinging halves. Middle English had both dure and dor; form dore predominated by 16c., but was supplanted by door.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. [Ogden Nash]