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swinging door

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Noun1.swinging door - a door that swings on a double hingeswinging door - a door that swings on a double hinge; opens in either direction
batwing - one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon)
door - a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle; "he knocked on the door"; "he slammed the door as he left"
flexible joint, hinge - a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
paneling, panelling, pane - a panel or section of panels in a wall or door


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McMurdo pushed open the swinging door of the saloon and made his way amid the crowd of men within, through an atmosphere blurred with tobacco smoke and heavy with the smell of spirits.
He marvelled that the door should open so often, and that all the people it let out should look so like each other, and so like all the other hot men who, at that hour, through the length and breadth of the land, were passing continuously in and out of the swinging doors of hotels.
 
 
 
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