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indoors, in-doors, adv.|ˌɪnˈdɔəz|
[Orig. two words, repr. earlier within doors (see door 5): sometimes hyphened.]
Within or into a house, etc.; under cover. (Opposed to out-of-doors.)
18..L. Hunt To Grasshopper & Cricket, In doors and out, summer and winter. 1832H. Martineau Demerara iii. 29 Would they step in-doors and rest. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton ix, Tita rose and said we must go indoors. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman xii, I am sure she lives indoors too much.
†b. attrib. = indoor adj. Obs.
1799Washington Writ. (1893) XIV. 229 There are many sorts of in-doors work, which can be executed in Hail, Rain, or Snow, as well as in sunshine. |