in-doors

adjective

Within, or taking place within a building.

Meanings

adjectivein-doors (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithin, or taking place within a building.

    Breakfast was hurried over, for the day was too bright for in-doors discourse; the elastic spirits born of the glad clear atmosphere required motion, and the look wandered after the sunshine.

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 48
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Chicago

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