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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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.