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1764 J. Prestage Particular of Argyll House 3 An iron lock and key, latch, bolt and bell to the fore area door.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 34 A piece of fat black water-pipe which trailed itself over the area-door.

1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. iv. 62 The area door slammed.

1994 E. Duffy Subaltern Ulysses v. 181 Bloom entered his own home (he climbed over the railings, let himself fall into the area, and entered through the area door).