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wiˈthin(-)ˌdoors, advb. phr. (a., n.) arch.
In (or into) the house: = indoors.
1581Mulcaster Positions viii. (1888) 53 One to be vsed within dores, and the other abroade. a1690in Somers Tracts (1748) I. 264 It seems..odd..that [he] should..make his final Appeal to the People, before he had tried the Force of one of his Reasons within-doors. 1789S. Shaw Tour W. Eng. 459 Rain confined us within doors several hours. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes iii, All within-doors is very plain and simple. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1871) II. 266 An English coal-fire, if we could see its honest face within doors, would compensate for all the unamiableness of the outside atmosphere. 1884Black Jud. Shakespeare vi, Judith's father would have no serving-men..come within-doors. 1895Hardy Jude i. ii, An animated conversation in progress within-doors.
b. (with hyphen) † attrib. or as adj. = indoor 1; also as n. that which is, or those who are, indoors.
1612[see prec., quot. 1625]. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 29 That there be more addicted to arts manly, than unto sedentary and within-doores occupations. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 286 All the within-doors of the village empties itself there. |