door-casen.
The case or frame lining a doorway, in which the door is hung.
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door-case1597
door-frame1889
1597 in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 154 x d. the foote for the dore cases.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 Sept. (1972) VI. 215 The window-cases, door-cases, and Chimnys of all the house are Marble.
1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. ii. 81 Door-cases of alabaster with rich foliage.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 489 The west door-case..appears to be of the same yellow stone.
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