withoutdoors

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

adverb

1. out of doors.

withoutdoors

/ ˈwɪðaʊtˈdɔːz /

adverb

1. an obsolete word for outdoors

Word History and Origins

Origin of withoutdoors¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg