Sentence examples for doorcase from inspiring English sources
noun
The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
The date 1601, engraved above a doorcase, is considered to be the date of completion.
The door is glazed and a Doric porch of modern brick covers the doorcase.
Additional features have been added to the interior by Raymond Richards, such as the doorcase around the entrance.
The entrance porch has a panelled ceiling with inlaid decoration and a moulded doorcase with an 18th-century oak door.
Similarly, number 48 the end house at the southeast corner has a hipped-roofed south-facing wing with a hipped roof, in which the entrance is set in a doorcase flanked by antae.
Acquiring a large farmhouse in Middletown, near Newport in the late 1720s, Berkeley dubbed it "Whitehall" and improved it with a Palladian doorcase derived from William Kent's Designs of Inigo Jones (1727), which he may have brought with him from London; Palladio's work was included in the library of a thousand volumes he amassed for the purpose and sent to Yale College.
One room boasts a joyous Rococo interior, with pedimented doorcases, Chinese-patterned cabinet window tracery and garlanded fruit and flowers.
