portiere

Example Sentences

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Beyond the audience chamber there were two or three more reception rooms, and from the last of these a door masked by a heavy portière, gave on milor's study.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"This way," answered Ida, leading them past her own room, which came next, and pushing aside a heavy portière which covered a door at the opposite end of the hall from Magnolia Budine's room.

From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

If Eusapia had been able to adroitly slip her hand around and seize the book through the portière, the bare outline of the book would not have been seen, but a protuberance of the portière.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

And thereupon she unhooped the portière, which consisted of two curtains, and drew them right across the door.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

There was the faint clash of portière rings, and the sound of the French doors being opened.

From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)