Definition of "doorposts" [doorposts]

• Plural form of doorpost. (noun)

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• "They stand in a great line of nonviolent revolutionaries, stretching back in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to those who dared to smear blood on their doorposts and move through these wombs to rebirth themselves and break the birth waters to cross the Red Sea."
• "We marked our doorposts with blood of the Korban Pesach (paschal lamb), we ate the lamb and had the first Passover seder."
• "They see me stop to touch, with fingertips and a kiss, the oblong vessels nailed to our doorposts, and have a sense of what that means."