doorpost
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All 30 men who went to war from the East Yorkshire village gave John Hugill a coin he nailed to his doorpost below a horseshoe.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2017
One of its other common names is Coughwort and in Paris, the flowers used to be painted as a sign on the doorpost of an apothecary's shop.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2016
In fine, Baseball again is knocking at the Nation's doorpost.
From Time Magazine Archive
I picked at the doorpost with a fingernail and a long splinter the size of my palm peeled away with little resistance.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The door creaked open and the cat slipped between the doorpost and the door and padded across the room, then up on the windowsill.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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