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ˈdoor-yard U.S.
A yard or garden-patch about the door of a house.
c1764in T. D. Woolsey Hist. Disc. (1850) 54 The Freshmen ..are forbidden to wear their hats..in the front door⁓yard of the President's or Professor's house. 1854Lowell Cambr. (Mass.) 30 Yrs. Ago Prose Wks. 1890 I. 59 The flowers which decked his little door-yard. 1878Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 412 We send to England for shrubs, which grow as well in our own door⁓yards and cow-pastures. 1913R. Frost Boy's Will 9 How drifts are piled, Dooryard and road ungraded. 1941T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages i. 7 The rank ailanthus of the April dooryard. |