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Dehors

Dehors \De*hors"\, prep. [F., outside.] (Law) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument. [1913 Webster] ||

Dehors

Dehors \De*hors"\, n. (Mil.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
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dehors

n. All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. prep. (context legal English) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.

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Sir Willoughby glanced at Dehors with his customary benevolent irony in speaking of the persons, great in their way, who served him.

I have had Dehors under my eye two years, and I can mount his enthusiasm at a word.