The wide doorways connecting the hall, the living room, and dining-room of our model house made doors undesirable and portieres necessary to assist in marking the division between the rooms and to soften the lines of the wood finish.
In fact, with figured walls plain portieres and curtains are much to be preferred.
Beautiful portieres have been woven by leaving out two threads of warp at regular intervals, giving a loose and fluffy effect.
The decorative effects of form may be brought out in the portieres and window draperies, which may easily carry more elaborate patterns when associated with plain walls than is desirable with figured wall decorations.
Portieres were originally a substitute for doors--a means of closing an opening between rooms.
Portieres may properly be made of heavy cloth and they may have a lining harmonizing or in pleasing contrast with the tone of the principal fabric.
She had risen, and now moved toward the hall door, evidently forgetting that the folding doors behind the portieres were open.
On the other side of the heavy portieres that cut us off from the living room I could distinguish low voices.
The one who jumped out from behind the portieres had on a mask and a false beard.
The thin girl sank into a chair beside the portieresand smoked her cigarette.
The step was heard also in the "parlor" behind the bar, revealing through chenille portieres its cheap and gaudy rugs and its coarse-grained oaken furniture, upholstered in plush of brilliant reds and blues.
Shagarach stepped to the cleft in the portieres and excused himself to answer a ring at the doorbell.
Shagarach had thrown the portieres aside and stood again in the cleft, widening it for the ladies to pass.
This way, Miss Barlow," the mother led Emily throughportieres into a rear room, not unlike the parlor in its furnishings.
Kane pointed to the portieresand his panic was complete.
Christina went and parted the portieres and Herrick heard her speaking with a kind of sweet authority in German, of which he caught the phrase--"Yes, you will stay!
As he turned to go it was Kane who came back through the portieres and said, "Sit down, for heaven's sake!
Christina opened her eyes full on him; glancing from the portieres to the softly curtained windows between which they two were completely alone, "Is it so terrible here?
But in doing that I saw how close theportieres hung.
And the sight of theseportieres carried with it a cold thrill.
Will never gets any further than to stand by that panel of wall, between the portieres and the door.
There before him was the long white blind; to his left the piano where Ingham had sat playing; by stretching out his right hand he could touch the portieres of the room in which they had found Ingham's body.
The portieres were a very clever ruse of Mrs. Balmer.
Mrs. Balmer noticed that Mr. Crawford, as she talked, kept staring at the portieres and watching them and that he seemed very nervous.
Mr. Crawford was sitting facing the portieres that covered the folding doors that partitioned the room.
She was about to reach out a hand to draw the portieres side, when they parted; and Langdon Jesse confronted her.
When the portieres thus were thrust apart, Louise saw, standing in the middle of the room which they screened off, a surprised-looking, somewhat scowling little Japanese.
Wondering, but not yet affected by any fear, she made a few steps toward the portieres at the rear of the room.
Jesse, knowing that the verdict of this court of arbitration could not but be against him, glanced at the portieres as if upon the point of bolting for it.
Hawkins held the portieres aside and Boyd heard their velvet swish at his back, yet for the briefest instant he did not see her, so motionless did she stand.
The portieres parted, and Wayne Wayland stood in the opening.
I'm sorry to have missed him," he added, glancing at the portieres that hid the folding doors.
A little gurgling laugh of triumph broke from her red lips as she returned to the parlor, when the portieres between it and the room were swept aside, and Emil Correlli himself walked into her presence.
This sudden break and startled query was caused by the rattling of the rings which held the portieres upon the pole across the archway between the two rooms, and by the gentle swaying of the draperies to and fro.
The portieres before which Peggy stood, one hand grasping them, parted suddenly behind her head, and the face of another girl was thrust out rudely behind her own and staring into mine.
The piazza opened into a small sitting-room with cool bamboo chairs and portieres of thin green silk stenciled with maple-leaves.
Barbara pushed the photographs aside and slipped into the next room, closing the door and drawing the heavy portieres that hung over it.
As he did so, Dan gazed in through the portieres from the hall.
On the other side of the portieres Michael and Clutching Hand waited.
Jennings, who had been busy about the portieres at the doorway, started to pick up the fallen knight.
Elaine moved into the drawing room, Jennings springing forward to part the portieres for her and passing through the room quickly where Flirty Florrie sat waiting.
Heavy portieres hung over the doorway into the hall, over another into a back room and over the bay windows.
You are a very brave man, Mr. Ballard," she said, as he drew the portieresaside for her.
And when the waiting came to an end it was not Bigelow who parted the portieres and came silently to stand before his chair; it was the king's daughter.
Heavy portieres hung behind her, evidently covering the double doors leading into other rooms beyond.
The Honorable William Moore came from between the portieres over the door which he had used for entrance from Burroughs' apartments into the Latimer suite.
The portieres rattled, and Patty stood in the doorway.
He went mysteriously to the portieres and peered into the hall; he repeated this performance at the dining-room door, then turned, a finger upon his lips.
There may be portieres between the landing and the reception-hall.
In this case there are merely door openings, portieres or curtains taking the place of ordinary doors.
Oftentimes there are only portieres of tapestry or lace to separate this room from the others which lead to it.
Curtains and portieres were of velour, heavily edged with fringe.
Can you picture a room where the portieres are all of different lengths?
Even she did not trouble herself to glance through the half-parted brocade portieres at the lonely little figure in the room beyond.
Immediately there followed a flinging back of the concealing portieres and the girl who had sprung into Marjorie's knowledge so unbecomingly that morning walked into the room.
The portieres are parted and from the lighted hallway we see the young man, the butler, and the maid, who enter.
As he did so the portieres bellied in toward him, as if in stiff sudden draught, or as if some one had darted into their folds quickly, then out.
The portieres move and the fingers of a girl are seen on the edge of the silk.
A bare and beautiful arm is thrust through the portieres almost to the shoulder, and it begins to move the portieres aside, reaching upward to pull the curtains apart at the rings.
As it pauses there the portieres move and the fingers of a girl are seen on the edge of the silk.
A bare and beautiful arm is thrust through almost to the shoulder and it begins to move the portieres aside, reaching upward to pull the curtains apart at the rings.
She throws apart the portieres with a quick motion of her arms and dashes inside.
We've traced everything to the needle in the portieres and it is my belief that it was part of an all- glass hypodermic with a platinum-iridium point.
Our heroine parts the portieresand stands revealed in the spotlight's glare.
The girl holding the portieresshut screams for help.
Before she knew it, the portieres flew apart and an eager little woman had rushed past her and flung her arms about the neck of the man.
Quick--in there," whispered Constance, shoving her through the portieres into the drawing room.
In less luxurious rooms, where there were no double doors, and portieres had to be used, these were made as scant and unobtrusive as possible.
I meant to draw the portieres apart myself, but going out through the library I forgot it.
The portieresbetween the room and the vestibule were drawn.
And I wanted some newportieres for my room; I will go without them.
He resumed his seat, and noticed the fragrance of roasted chicken coming through the parted portieres from the kitchen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portieres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
