Meanings
verbdo out (third-person singular simple present does out, present participle doing out, simple past did out, past participle done out)
present singular third person does out · participle present doing out · past did out · participle past done out
- colloquialtransitiveTo decorate, tidy, or clean (a place).
After two days' absence, with the easy casuistry of her circumstances, the lady had decided that he was not returning and had proceeded to "do out" the room for the next tenant.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
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