dooryard
English
Etymology
door + yard
Noun
dooryard (plural dooryards)
- (Northern New England) the yard near the front or back door of a house
- 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- "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."
- 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
See also
- ambit
- curtilage