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单词 adoors
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adoorsadv.

Brit. /əˈdɔːz/, U.S. /əˈdɔrz/
Forms: 1500s a dores, 1500s–1600s a doores, 1700s a doors, 1800s– adoors.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: a prep.2, door n.
Etymology: Probably partly < at doors (see at door at door n. Phrases 1), with reduction of the first element, and partly < a prep.2 + the plural of door n. (compare a- prefix4). Compare a door adv. With out adoors compare earlier out at doors at door n. Phrases 1 and slightly later out of doors adv. With in adoors compare in at doors at door n. Phrases 1. With forth adoors (compare quot. 1532) compare forth of doors prep. at forth adv. 9a.In early use written as two words.
Now English regional (Yorkshire) (rare).
Of the doors; at the doors. Only with preceding adverb, as out adoors, in adoors. Cf. a door adv.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xii. f. cxl Nowe shall the prynce off this worlde be cast out a dores [Gk. ἐκβληθήσεται ἔξω, L. eicietur foras].
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 804/2 Ye shall beare no part of that flesh foorth a dores.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 393 Charitie driueth feare out a doores.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 629 He taketh one..and drawe[t]h him in a doores.
a1728 W. Wall Crit. Notes New Test. (1730) 44 Our Saviour was by the tenor of the context gone in a doors into the house with his company.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. iii. 504 Here, run in a-doors quickly.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth III. iii. 46 When that lass shall cross my threshold, all the mischief and misery she hath made here will seem to come in adoors in one heap.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 2/1 You're alus clattin' in and oot a-doors.
1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxiii. 172 Nobody was afoot in the house as then, however, so I went out a-doors.
1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 60 A' 'm noan bahn aht adoors to-day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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