Out-of-doors
adj, adv, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 outdoors
- 2 where the air is unconfined wordnet
- 1 Primarily in the open rather than under the cover of habitation. archaic
"Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire were seated two men, with red kerchiefs knitted round their close-curled dark hair. There was something in the complexions and the out-of-doors life that at once carried the Italians back to their own country."
- 1 outdoors; outside.
"Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors."
Example
More examples"You clutter up your room entirely too much with out-of-doors stuff, Anne."
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