Phil in SF quoted His Family by Ernest Poole
Roger Gale, a media-monitoring business owner nearing retirement, observes life in early 20th century New …
One day in the early afternoon, as he entered the house there had been a burst on his ears a perfect gale of laughter; and peering through the portières. he had seen the dining room full of young girls, a crew as wild as Laura herself.
— His Family by Ernest Poole (1%)
new vocabulary: portière
A curtain hung over a door or doorway