without-door
English
Alternative forms
without door
Etymology
From without (“outside of, beyond”) + door.
Adjective
- (obsolete) outdoor; exterior
- 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:
- 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; […]
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References
- “without-door, adv. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. See for more quotations.
- “without-door”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.