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postern

adjective as in back

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By then they were more than halfway to the hospice, but it was nearly dark when they reached St. Mark’s and were admitted by the porter at the postern gate.

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The postern was closed again, the iron door was barred and piled inside with stones.

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It was a battered wooden postern under a slab of stone.

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He saw three gates during his wanderings—the main entrance with its gatehouse, a postern by the kennels, and a garden gate hidden behind a tangle of pale ivy.

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They left through a postern gate in the north wall.

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