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Definition of Adoors
1. at the door [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoors
Literary usage of Adoors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"It's warm out adoors to-daay!" " Pleaz mother may I goa out ... T' ball's roll'd
out adoors afore ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... at sea, at land, at doors, compare adoors; at length &c. ai sometime corresponds
to the French a: at leisure, French à loisir: at random, ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"ULYSSES in the court lay out adoors Pallas and Ulys- New kill'd and sacrificed
by the woo'rs. ..."
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