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The one thing in every room sturdy enough to pretend you were always this strong.
means The rigid frame of wood or metal that lines a doorway, holding the door's hinges and latch and giving the opening its structure.
from A straightforward compound: 'door,' from Old English 'duru,' going back to a very old Indo-European root for door or gate shared across many languages, plus 'frame,' from Old English 'framian' meaning to profit or make progress, which shifted toward 'to shape' or 'to construct' by the medieval period. Put together, the word is exactly as literal as it looks — the frame that makes a door possible — with no hidden trick in its history.
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