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/fˈoʊldɪŋ dɔr/ Listen

noun

Folding n.

The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. "The lower foldings of the vest."

(Agric.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.

Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc.

Folding chair, a chair which may be shut up compactly for carriage or stowage; a camp chair.

Folding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

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Etymology of 'Folding door'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Folding door" Quotes from Famous Books

... however, that the shutters of the fourth story were of the peculiar kind called by Parisian carpenters ferrades—a kind rarely employed at the present day, but frequently seen upon very old mansions at Lyons and Bourdeaux. They are in the form of an ordinary door, (a single, not a folding door) except that the lower half is latticed or worked in open trellis—thus affording an excellent hold for the hands. In the present instance these shutters are fully three feet and a half broad. When we saw them from the rear ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... bouche the spirit made its exit from the side of the folding door covered by the curtain, and immediately Miss C. rose up with dishevelled locks in a way that must have been satisfactory to anybody who knew nothing of the back door and the brawny servant, or who had never seen the late Mr. Charles Kean act in the 'Corsican Brothers' ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... before us, she walked through the curtained doorway into the room beyond. It was in darkness, but I could see the slave-girl in front of me, a slim silhouette, as she walked to a screened window, and, opening the screen in the manner of a folding door, also ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... made a sign to the soldier, who throwing open a large folding door, discovered a rack on which one of the Swedish officers was tied, and the others stood near bound, and in ...

— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood