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dooryard en · NOUN

Etymology

From door + yard.

Meanings

1. (Atlantic-Canada, Maine, qualifier:Vermont) the yard near the front or back door of a house
   • 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, […] 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
   • "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:

Forms

Deriveds

dooryard dock

Relateds

ambit · front yard · barnyard · curtilage · farmyard · backyard