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without-door

without-door adjective: outdoor; exterior.

Adjective

without-door (not comparable)

  1. (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...

Origin of without-door

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

Questions about without-door

What does without-door mean?
Without-door means outdoor; exterior.
What part of speech is without-door?
Without-door is an adjective.

Words near without-door in the dictionary

  1. without tea and biscuits
  2. without tears
  3. without trace
  4. without troubling the scorers
  5. without welt or guard
  6. without-door
  7. withoutcha
  8. withoutdoors
  9. withoute
  10. withoutforth
  11. withoutness

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