What is "out-of-doors"

Usage examples of "out-of-doors".

Japanese homes, those of the Heian courtiers had partitions, sliding doors, and shutters mat could readily be removed to make smaller rooms into larger ones and to open the whole interior of a building to the out-of-doors.

Luciano Mora was always scolding that American inns do not use the good out-of-doors, a tea and luncheon terrace, vine-sheltered and looking on sea or lake or mountain-valley.

He taught them to eat out-of-doors during Succoth, and of course he taught them to drink themselves to a merry stupor on Purim.

Then he stepped out-of-doors, where the milkers were just opening the byres, and soon was on the hillside with his face to the High Peak.

They surged into the front hall and grabbed their parkas from the coatrack and jostling and complaining at one another they arrayed themselves for the out-of-doors, slinging knapsacks over their backs, jamming gloves onto their hands, winding and knotting scarves.

Occasionally there was an alarm that the mist was getting thin, that the clouds were about to break, and a rush was made out-of-doors, and the tourists dispersed about on the rocks.

If dried out-of-doors, take in before there is any risk of becoming damp from dew or showers.

Fortunately, the weather was cool but bearable, and the thief was often out-of-doors, looking as if she were on some bloody holiday, strolling about the grounds with her friend, or reading a book beneath the arbor, or even more outrageously, participating in a game of lawn bowling, over which she grew quite enthusiastic, jumping and whirling about with each bowl.