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ˈout-wall|-wɔːl|
[out- 3.]
The outer wall of any building or enclosure.
1535Coverdale Ezek. xli. 11 The thicknesse of the out-wall was v cubites rounde aboute. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 57 Various colours on the out-walls of Buildings have alwayes in them more Delight then Dignity. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §114 The out-wall was in a remarkably leaning condition.
b. fig. The clothing; the body, as enclosing the soul. Used by Edmund Blunden in the sense ‘outward appearance’.
1605Shakes. Lear iii. i. 45 For confirmation that I am much more Then my out-wall; open this Purse, and take What it containes. 1631R. H. Arr. Whole Creature x. §2. 86 The Windes of afflictions beat upon the outwals of his flesh. 1933E. Blunden Charles Lamb v. 131 He [sc. Wordsworth] does express the altitudo of Lamb's personality and influence far more thoughtfully than a host of subsequent writers to whom Lamb's outwall with its Punch and Judy shows and all the fun of the fair has been the principal thing to report. 1937― in Essays & Stud. XXII. 60 Acquaintances who did not always separate the man from his outwall. Ibid., The candour and keenness of the first period, when the outwall had not yet become necessary. |