dooryard

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.32 in modern English

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noun

"In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, / Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, […]"
""You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard.""

From door + yard.

dooryards (plural)

dooryard dock front yard

backyard front yard barnyard farmyard ambit curtilage

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