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without-door en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) outdoor; exterior
    • Prayſe her but for this her without-dore-Forme, (Which on my faith deſerues high ſpeech) and ſtraight The Shrug, the Hum, or Ha, (theſe Petty-brands That Calumnie doth vſe; […] c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 282, column 1:

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