Meanings
adverbwithindoors (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of within-doors.
Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]
1949, Edward Nicholas, The hours and the ages: a sequence of Americans, page 77
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