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dooryard

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door·yard  (dôryärd, dr-)
n.
The yard in front of the door of a house.
dooryard [ˈdɔːˌjɑːd]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) US and Canadian a yard in front of the front or back door of a house
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Noun1.dooryard - a yard outside the front or rear door of a house
curtilage, grounds, yard - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
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They found a woman in the front dooryard moaning and groaning as if in great pain.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Had they been farsighted enough they might have seen, when the stage turned into the side dooryard of the old brick house, a calico yoke rising and falling tempestuously over the beating heart beneath, the red color coming and going in two pale cheeks, and a mist of tears swimming in two brilliant dark eyes.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
A rather fat soldier attempted to pilfer a horse from a dooryard.
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