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Encyclopedia > Dutch door

A Dutch door is a door divided horizontally in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens. The initial purpose of this door was to keep animals out of the farmhouse. Later modifications included doors where both halves can close or open. Dutch door This image was retrieved from the Probert Encyclopaedia and may have been obtained from the public domain or it could have been released without the copyright holders permission. ... The front door of a house is often decorated to appear inviting. ...


The term is also applied to the modified rear doors on selected GMC Safaris/Chevrolet Astros that have a flip up rear window and two small half-size doors....


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Historic Doors (1786 words)
A wooden door made of vertical planks or boards fastened together with horizontal boards (battens), which are usually nailed to the inside of the door.
Doors usually have between one and eight panels, and the door is often referred to by the number of panels it contains.
The common six-panel door, in which the top four panels are proportioned to delineate a cross and the lower two panels represent the open Bible, was popular in colonial America and is often called a Colonial door, or Christian door, or cross-and-Bible door.
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