"doorlet" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908 August 15, Robert Haven Schauffler, “Child's Play in Germany”, in The Outlook, volume 89, number 16, page 855:",
          "text": "“ Open thy doorlet, Mistress dear, / Let the darling sun appear. […]”",
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          "ref": "c. 1919, William Henry Seal, “Richard Cœur de Lion”, in Selection from Poems, John Heywood Ltd., Act I, scene II. Entrance to Monastery, page 120:",
          "text": "(Enter a Beggar — he rings the mendicants hell and monk appears at doorlet.)",
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          "ref": "1921 July 5, H. de Jong, “Essential Limitation and Subdivision of Idiocy on a Comparative-Psychological Basis”, in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 54, number 1, page 11:",
          "text": "I now open the door by putting him through. He pulls the doorlet wholly open and plays with the pencil.",
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          "ref": "1970, Franz Landsberger, “The Origin of the Decorated Mezuzah”, in Joseph Gutmann, editor, Beauty in Holiness: Studies in Jewish Customs and Ceremonial Art, KTAV Publishing House, page 474:",
          "text": "Instead of covering with wax — hardly an ideal solution — there sometimes came into use the device of placing, over the orifice through which the Divine Name appears, a kind of doorlet the wings of which could, as occasion demanded, be closed or opened.",
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          "ref": "1970, Ramon Sender Morningstar, “Home, Home on El Raucho” (chapter 2), in Zero Weather: A Future Fantasy, The Family Publishing Company, page 7:",
          "text": "A tail-wag and an ankle slurp for Omaha before she nosed open her private carpet-hung doorlet and went outside to greet the sun.",
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          "ref": "1981 [1969 November 5], Clarice Bruno, Roads to Padre Pio, 7th edition, National Centre for Padre Pio, page 80:",
          "text": "Upon which he terminated confessing me and the doorlet of the confessional closed, and out I went before I had time to realize what had happened, but feeling lighter, so much lighter than when I went in. For, from his words, I understood that I was spiritually at peace with God.",
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          "ref": "1984, Deborah Webster Rogers, Chrétien de Troyes, translated by Deborah Webster Rogers, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Columbia University Press, page 20:",
          "text": "6. “Up through the window.” One wonders how this door was made. Hardly a doorlet near the bottom through which castle guests put out their sollcrets at night to be polished. A Dutch door open at the bottom?",
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          "ref": "1986, Gwyn Headley, Wim Meulenkamp, “Norfolk”, in Follies: A National Trust Guide, Jonathan Cape, page 360:",
          "text": "There is an Alice in Wonderland-type doorlet set into the brick, through which one can see the wooden spiral staircase — but here our wonderfully developed sense of self-preservation took over, and we refrained from exploring any higher.",
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        "A small door."
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        "(uncommon) A small door."
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  "word": "doorlet"
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          "ref": "1908 August 15, Robert Haven Schauffler, “Child's Play in Germany”, in The Outlook, volume 89, number 16, page 855:",
          "text": "“ Open thy doorlet, Mistress dear, / Let the darling sun appear. […]”",
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        },
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          "text": "Upon which he terminated confessing me and the doorlet of the confessional closed, and out I went before I had time to realize what had happened, but feeling lighter, so much lighter than when I went in. For, from his words, I understood that I was spiritually at peace with God.",
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          "text": "6. “Up through the window.” One wonders how this door was made. Hardly a doorlet near the bottom through which castle guests put out their sollcrets at night to be polished. A Dutch door open at the bottom?",
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