Bars
Bars noun - Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights.
Open
Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
Both words in one sentence
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Darunia also bars himself off until a royal messenger arrives, although he apparently has an open door policy at all other times.
Source: What's Up, King Dude? -
The two men spent the evening drinking at several bars before Berger's husband officially gave the two permission to continue their relationship out in the open.
Source: Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows - The episode "The Cat and the Claw" featured one of these where the keys of a piano had to be pressed in the right order - the first few bars of Beethoven's Ode to Joy - to open a secret door.
Source: Songs in the Key of Lock
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Open and Bars. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bars/open
Bars & Open. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bars/open>.
Open or Bars. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bars/open.
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