So she allowed "ma'am," like a homely fleck, to settle unreproved on the ancestral doorplate.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The Dummy knew nothing of the washing; the early morning was the time when he polished the brass doorplate which said: Hospital and Free Dispensary.
"Love Stories"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The woman who is covered with jewelry, looking like a travelling doorplate, is the kind from whom we expect the bow to vary, in coldness or cordiality, according to the clothes we wear, or the entertainments we are able to give.
"Bohemian Society"
Lydia Leavitt