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indoor, in-door, a. (adv.)|ˈɪnˌdɔə(r)|
[For earlier within-door (Bacon), phrase taken attrib.: cf. next. In early use generally hyphened.]
A. adj.
1. a. Pertaining to the interior of a house or other building; situated or carried on within doors or under cover. (Opposed to out-door.) spec. Of amusements, games, etc., occurring or played indoors.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 430 One admires musick and paintings, cabinet-curiositys, and in-door ornaments. 1774Foote Cozeners i. Wks. 1799 II. 158 He..does..more in-door christenings than any three of the cloth. 1813Scott Let. to Joanna Baillie 12 Sept. in Lockhart, The indoor work does not please me as well. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre II. iii. 61 In-door amusements..became more lively and varied, in consequence of the stop put to out-door gaiety. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxix. 296 Gradually accustoming ourselves to indoor life and habits. 1863Thackeray Virgin. xxvi. 178, I don't care for indoor games much..but I..long to see a good English hunting-field. 1865C. M. Yonge Clever Woman II. vii. 135 ‘How is Conrade?’ ‘Quite himself. Up to a prodigious amount of indoor croquet.’ 1873Young Englishwoman Mar. 154/2 Can you recommend me..any indoor games suitable for young children, and the words used. 1883C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 131 Part of the universal indoor dress of the Persian women. 1890Harper's Weekly 8 Mar. 179/4 In-door baseball has not the slightest resemblance to parlor croquet. 1897Illustr. London News 13 Nov. 710/3 (Advt.), Puff billiards. The latest and most amusing in⁓door game yet produced. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Oct. 10/1 Several upsets featured the play in the Canadian indoor tennis championships here yesterday. 1925A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. vii. 70 ‘When all is said, is there a better indoor sport [than philosophy]?..’ ‘Possibly not... But the point is, aren't there better occupations for a man of sense than indoor sports, even the best of indoor sports?’ 1926R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. iv. 88 Have you always hated indoor games? 1948J. Betjeman Sel. Poems 35 (title) Indoor games near Newbury. 1949Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 23 Feb. 18/2 The explosive charge..occupies a sphere of three or four inches—about the size of an indoor baseball. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle ii. 54 Baiting Harry was..one of Johnny Hollinger's favourite indoor sports. 1965J. Symons Belting Inheritance iii. 51 The sort of indoor cricket that you play on paper by picking words out of a book. 1972Country Life 23 Nov. 1424/2 Miniature Croquet Sets... Great indoor game for family and friends. 1972R. Perry Fall Guy iv. 71 We once again indulged in the oldest of indoor sports.
b. Within the workhouse or poorhouse.
1864Times 24 Dec., The State, with its vast revenue of Poor-rates, its capacious workhouses..its indoor and out⁓door poor. 1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) p. xxxi. (Contents), The in-door relief given in London is a charge upon the whole metropolis.
2. transf. In an inward position or direction.
1874J. H. Collins Metal Mining 93 The water is raised in the lower or drawing lift by the up or ‘in-door’ stroke of the engine. Ibid. 98 The piston-rod, which is attached..to the inner or ‘in-door’ end..of the great beam.
B. adv. = indoors.
1884Tennyson Becket ii. ii, They are plagues enough in⁓door.
So (nonce-wds.) inˈdoorness, the essence of being indoors; inˈdoory a., preferring to remain indoors.
1934G. B. Shaw Village Wooing 120 My mother was that indoory that she grudged having to go out and do her marketing. 1949E. Bowen Heat of Day vi. 103 The concentrated indoorness of the lounge was made..greater rather than less by the number of exits. |