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Middle English
Adverb
ther-oute
- outside; there outside
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1136-1139:
‘Voydeth your man, and lat him be ther-oute,
And shet the dore, whyls we been aboute
Our privetee, that no man us espye
Whyls that we werke in this philosophye.’- ‘Send away your man, and have him be outside,
And shut the door, while we are about
Our secret business, so that no man espy us
While we work in this science.’
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