within doors

English

Adverb

within doors (comparative more within doors, superlative most within doors)

1. Alternative form of within-doors
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors,
     Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.