withindoors

[ with-in-dawrz, -dohrz, with- ]

adverb

1. into or inside the house.

withindoors

/ ˈwɪðɪnˈdɔːz /

adverb

1. an obsolete word for indoors

Word History and Origins

Origin of withindoors¹

First recorded in 1575–85; within + door + -s ¹

Example Sentences

Her lord, if he be wearied of the face Withindoors, gets him forth; some merrier place Will ease his heart: but she waits on, her whole Vision enchainèd on a single soul.

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Attracted and excited by this legal quarrel, the students, the enthusiastic young Liberals, the old professional disturbers, the idlers and oppositionists of every class, were engaged daily with the soldiers and the agents of police, in conflicts sometimes sanguinary, and the accounts of which redoubled the acrimony of the debate withindoors.

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She had her own reasons for keeping withindoors in the daytime.

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These are indeed the barn; withindoors house The shocks.

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The wall-flower clumps were in bloom in the courtyard of the Abbey, and there were many primroses and delicate primulas in the garden; and all the hyacinths were out withindoors, making a delicious smell.

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