Brewer's: 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
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