DCHP-3

come out

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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leave the North, the bush, to return "outside," i.e., to civilization.

Quotations

1929
. . . where he remained for ten years . . . before coming out.
1938
Strange old men appear there [in Bachelors' Hall]--old servants of the Company who, after a lifetime in the interior, finally "come out" on their way home across the seas.
1951
Afterwards, when we had "come out" and were in Toronto. . . .