What is "doorcase"

Usage examples of "doorcase".

Colt between the knob and the doorcase in such a way that when you tried to open up from inside, you merely made the wedge tighter.

There he tilted his hatbrim to give shade to his eyes and leaned against the doorcase, looking idly out.

James, all I saw was a simple building with undistinguished brickwork and a staid pedimented Ionic doorcase marking the entrance.

Palewski wondered briefly whether sunlight had penetrated to this spot at all in the past fifteen hundred years: the sunken doorcase, he had long suspected, was early Byzantine work, and he had no reason to imagine that the dark wooden handrail, to which he was now clinging as he swung blindly but unfalteringly upstairs, was anything but Byzantine itself, like the stone of the house, and the window embrasures, and the very probably Roman vaulting overhead.

It was set flush in the wall without a doorcase and only a small glass know and a keyhole betrayed its presence, as it was covered with the same blue-grey brocade as the wall.

Rich blue lapis columns and doorcases contrasted crisply with the gleaming white walls.

Snow clung to its gargoyles and crochets, doorcases and window ledges, outlining the Victorian ornamentation in white.