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ˈfolding ˈdoor
[f. folding ppl. a. + door.]
A door consisting of two parts hung on opposite jambs, so that their edges come into contact when the door is closed. Now usually pl. in same sense.
In the mod. sense of the adj. the name is more appropriate when, as is often the case, each of the parts of the door consists of two or more leaves, hinged so as to fold up when the door is open. ‘Folding doors’ are often used to form a removable partition between two adjacent rooms; hence the term is sometimes loosely applied to a partition used for the same purpose, but opened by lateral sliding of its parts.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Batant, A foulding, or two leaued doore. 1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 102 In one of the Folding-doors is usually a Wicket. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xix, Through a folding-door she passed from the great hall to the ramparts. 1829University Instr. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 103 The four Schools..are..to communicate with each other..by large double folding doors. 1838Lytton Calderon i, The folding-doors were thrown open. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 125 A double or, as it is commonly termed, folding-door.
So folding gates.
1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xi, ‘They rode..through the muckle faulding yetts.’ 1870Bryant Iliad I. xii. 397 The beams that strengthened the tall folding-gates. |