door-post

door-post (plural door-posts)

1. Archaic form of doorpost.
   • 1657, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution: Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World. […], 3rd edition, London: […] R. Norton, for Richard Royston, […], page 212:

     […] if the conſperſion and waſhing the door-poſts with the blood of a Lamb, did ſacramentally preſerve all the firſt-born of Goſhen, […]

   • 1826, “London Letters to Country Cousins. No. 5. The Streets of London by Gas-Light.”, in Rejected Articles, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 239:

     In all my shopping chaperonings, I do not remember to have leant against the door-post, or stood with my back to the fire-place, or sat half on half off that anomaly in household furniture, the shop-chair, of a single house in this whole line of street.

   • 1843, Albert [Richard] Smith, “The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury and His Friend, Jack Johnson”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIV, London: Richard Bentley, […], chapter XLVII (Mr. De Robinson, Junior, has an interview with Mr. Prodgers), page 227:

     The residence which Mr. Prodgers shared with several of his fellow-pupils, was situated in a small street lying somewhere between Burton Crescent and Gray’s Inn Road, of a modest and unassuming appearance, with a triad of names upon the door-post, surmounted by bell-knobs, and a scutcheonless hole for a latch-key in the door, which bespoke, by its worn and dilated aperture, the late hours kept out of the house by the inmates.

   • 1867, “Christ Our Passover. The Substance of a Sermon preached by J. Bloomfield, in Westgate Baptist Chapel, Braford, Yorkshire, on the morning of October 6, 1867”, in The Voice of Truth; or, Baptist Record, volume VI, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 268:

     The blood of the passover was sprinkled on the lintels and the door-posts, and was God’s token of their safety amidst surrounding dangers.

   • 1870, William Morris, “December: The Fostering of Aslaug”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 57:

     They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.

   • 1892, Hilarion [pseudonym; Campbell McKellar], “Judy on Society”, in A Jersey Witch, London: Eden, Remington & Co […], page 87:

     A lot of young men in long frock-coats glued to the door-posts, so limp, poor things, and all the women drinking tea by themselves and longing for the young men.

   • 1892, Henry Seton Merriman [pseudonym; Hugh Stowell Scott], “In the Rue St. Gingolphe”, in The Slave Of The Lamp, volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 5:

     This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinère, a lady who paints the magic word ‘Modes’ beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.