What is "doorplate"

Usage examples of "doorplate".

There had been a shining brass doorplate and knocker when Monk was there before, but this had been replaced with a wooden substitute.

The name on the doorplate checked with the one typed on the letter he carried, the forged introduction supposedly from former SS Colonel Joachim Eberhardt of Bremen.

The clerk at the desk peered at him sympathetically as he pressed his fingers into the checkout plate, thereby erasing the impress from the doorplate upstairs.

As she touched her hand to the doorplate she heard odd crooning sounds coming from inside, deep, heavy, slow.

The words Coffee Parlour were engraved on the brass doorplate, but the room was designed for afternoon tea as well as morning coffee.

Outsider doorplate, waited while the door slid sideways, then stepped out dimly lit hall.

Brennen sealed the hatch, perching on the tilted doorplate and clinging one-handed to the security handle.

I got kept me standing where I was, thumb to doorplate, bewildered, then suspicious.

Amy pushed hard against the metal doorplate and the oversized, heavy door swung open as she knew it would.

What I got kept me standing where I was, thumb to doorplate, bewildered, then suspicious.

A few, better-figured avocats or notaires (their profession was as unmistakable as if they had carried their wellpolished brass doorplates upon their breasts) walked and gravely talked with each other.

A long building on the left housed three offices, designated by doorplates: Superintendent, Business Office, and Assayer.

Arkady slid a chain bolt into the doorplate a moment before someone rapped on the other side.

The house O'Shea or O'Shame, Quivapieno, known as the Haunted Inkbottle, no number Brimstone Walk, Asia in Ireland, as it was infested with the raps, with his penname SHUT sepiascraped on the doorplate and a blind of black sailcloth over its wan phwinshogue, in which the soulcontracted son of the secret cell groped through life at the expense of the taxpayers, dejected into day and night with jesuit bark and bitter bite, calico hydrants of zolfor and scoppialamina by full and forty Queasisanos, every day in everyone's way more exceeding in violent abuse of self and others, was the worst, it is hoped, even in our western playboyish world for pure mousefarm filth.