cellar door

See also: cellar-door

English

Etymology

From Middle English celer door, celer dore. By surface analysis, cellar +‎ door.

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Noun

cellar door (plural cellar doors)

1. A door leading to a cellar.
2. Part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased.

Usage notes

• In phonaesthetics, cellar door is a quintessential example of an inherently pleasant-sounding phrase irrespective of its meaning.

Translations

door leading to a cellar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地窖門 / 地窖门 (dìjiàomén)

• Dutch: kelderdeur (nl)
• Finnish: kellarin ovi
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• Georgian: მარნისკარი (ka) (marnisḳari)
• German: Kellertür (de) f
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• Lithuanian: rūsio durys f pl, durys į rūsį
• Polish: drzwi piwniczne pl
• Portuguese: porta da adega f
• Romanian: ușă de pivniță f
• Russian: дверь в подва́л f (dverʹ v podvál)
• Spanish: puerta del sótano f
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• Vietnamese: cửa tầng hầm

part of a winery

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 品酒室 (pǐnjiǔshì)

• Finnish: myymälä (fi)
• French: cave (fr) f
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