All 3 Uses of
partition
in
Main Street
- Halfway down the car is a semi-partition of carved oak columns, but the aisle is of bare, splintery, grease-blackened wood.†
Chpt 3 *
- The post-office—merely a partition of glass and brass shutting off the rear of a mildewed room which must once have been a shop.†
Chpt 4
- Carpenters had torn out the partition between front parlor and back parlor, thrown it into a long room on which she lavished yellow and deep blue; a Japanese obi with an intricacy of gold thread on stiff ultramarine tissue, which she hung as a panel against the maize wall; a couch with pillows of sapphire velvet and gold bands; chairs which, in Gopher Prairie, seemed flippant.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(partition) something that divides space
or: the act of dividing into parts, or a divided part