Portieres

The portieres were a very clever ruse of Mrs. Balmer. ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)

There are verandas on each side of the doorway with stone benches; the doorway and window frames are hung with "portieres" of split reeds, and a ladder does duty for door steps. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

But the next instant he had passed out of the hall through the heavy portieres and stood inside the drawing-room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Halfway up the stairs, I looked back to see Vera still hiding behind the beaded portieres, clinging to them for balance as her feet shuffled in rhythm to the music; watching until the very end. ❋ V.C. Andrews® (2010)

Ms. LEIGH: (as Scarlet O'Hara) Great balls of fire, they're my portieres now. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ms. HATTIE MCDANIEL (Actress): (as Mammy) What you up to in Miss Ellen's portieres? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ms. MCDANIEL: (as Mammy) Not out of Miss Ellen's portieres, not while I got breath in my body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Miss Kitty beat me to the line--Miss Scarlett, don't you be doing that with your mama's portieres! ❋ Unknown (2008)

The salon, hung with blue and white damask, formerly the curtains of the state-bed, was draped with ample portieres and window curtains lined with white silk. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Italian silk, portieres hanging from rods of old oak in tapestried masses on which the figures of some hunting scene are swarming, pieces of furniture worthy to have belonged to Madame de Pompadour, ❋ Unknown (2007)

The portieres, held back by cords, gave a vista through two elegant salons, one white and gold, comparable only to that of the hotel Forbin – Janson, the other in the style of the Renaissance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What frightful Boucher and Lancret shepherds and shepherdesses leered over the portieres! ❋ Unknown (2006)

There are verandas on each side of the doorway with stone benches; the doorway and window frames are hung with “portieres” of split reeds, and a ladder does duty for door steps. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The marble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all new and expensive. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The portieres were of a grayish blue and the chairs were of all shapes, of all sizes; scattered about the room were couches and large and small easy-chairs, all covered with Louis XVI. brocade, or Utrecht velvet, a cream colored ground with garnet flowers. ❋ Unknown (2003)