dehors
English
Noun
dehors
- (fortification) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
Preposition
dehors
- (law) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dehors”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French dehors, defors, from Old French defors, from Vulgar Latin dē forīs, from Latin dē + forīs (“outdoors”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /də.ɔʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʁ
Adverb
dehors
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dehors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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