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withindoors

withindoors

See also: within-doors

English

Adverb

withindoors (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of within-doors
    • 1949, Edward Nicholas, The hours and the ages: a sequence of Americans (page 77)
      Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships []