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withoutdoors

[ with-out-dawrz, -dohrz, with- ]

adverb

  1. out of doors.


withoutdoors

/ ˈwɪðaʊtˈdɔːz /

adverb

  1. an obsolete word for outdoors
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of withoutdoors1

First recorded in 1610–20; without + door + -s 1
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Example Sentences

The candles alight in the room    For my parting meal Made all things withoutdoors loom    Strange, ghostly, unreal.

Nor was all my amusement withoutdoors; for a number of the gentlemen of the Court, hearing that I had been at St. Cloud in the morning, and in the very chamber, a thing which made me for the moment the most desirable companion in the world, remembered on a sudden that they had a slight acquaintance with me, and honoured me by calling upon me and sitting a great part of the day with me.

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