withoutdoors

adv

withoutdoors

adv

Etymology From without (“outside of, beyond”) + doors.

1

Archaic outdoors

  • The candles alight in the room / For my parting meal / Made all things withoutdoors loom / Strange, ghostly, unreal.1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Fairwell':
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