Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Doors

[house ]. As, come indoors, go indoors. So Virgil: “Tum foribus divæ ... [Dido]... resedit.” (Then Dido seated herself in the house or temple of the goddess.) (Æneid, i. 505.)

Out of doors.
Outside the house; in the open air.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Doorm
Door-tree
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

More on Doors from Fact Monster:

  • Door Peninsula - Door Peninsula Door Peninsula, 80 mi (129 km) long, NE Wis., between Green Bay and Lake Michigan; a ...
  • The Doors - The Doors rock group Rock group remembered for its dark, poetic lyrics, psychedelic guitars, and ...
  • trap-door spider - trap-door spider trap-door spider, spiderof the same family as the native American tarantula. ...
  • Open Door - Open Door Open Door, maintenance in a certain territory of equal commercial and industrial rights ...
  • Open Door: Bibliography - Bibliography See G. Z. Wood, The Genesis of the Open Door Policy in China (1921); M. J. Bau, The ...

Related Content