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Meanings of door-mat in English

A flat object for wiping one’s shoes, laid on the floor immediately outside or inside the entrance to a building.

        Usage of door-mat in English
        1
        But her ladyship stood motionless on the door-mat, erect and cool.
        There & Back
        2
        Agamemnon's troubles commenced with the first cough of Mrs. Pilcher on the door-mat.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841
        3
        A man, whom we found posted on the door-mat, brought up the rear.
        Jezebel's Daughter
        4
        There she was, standing on the door-mat in the narrow passage!
        The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
        5
        You are selfish in the grain to be a door-mat.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        6
        In a moment another man stood upon the straw-woven door-mat.
        Stories by English Authors: England
        7
        You ARE a door-mat, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for it.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        8
        An ironmonger added a scraper and an old lady ran up with a door-mat.
        Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
        9
        A man should be a man, and not a door-mat.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        10
        Then Mis' Adkins says again: 'He's nothing but a door-mat.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        11
        The latch clicked upward, and out of the night our pedestrian appeared upon the door-mat.
        Wessex Tales
        12
        Perhaps they had left some door unfastened-perhapsthey had put the keys under the door-mat.
        The Peterkin papers
        13
        Back at home on the Aventine I sometimes found love letters lying on my door-mat.
        Shadows in Bronze
        14
        He has just decided that the door-mat is a boat, and the tiled floor a river.
        Jean-Christophe, Volume I
        15
        Miss Snell, with eyes red and tearful, stood on his door-mat when he answered the tap.
        Different Girls
        16
        She dropped her disconcerted vision to the door-mat.
        With the Procession
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        Door-mat through the time