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front yard U.S.
[front n. (a.) 13.]
A piece of ground or garden in front of a house.
1767J. Browne Diary 122 My pump in the front yard froze. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 114 Southerners, with the exception of the cultivation of a few plants in a front yard, pay little regard to horticulture. 1897‘Mark Twain’ Following Equator xxix. 282 There cannot be another town in the world that has no..weed-grown front-yards of the poor. 1908Westm. Gaz. 29 May 1/3 ‘The front-yard’, as my old farming friend in the train informed me, was mostly grass. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ii. 69 The Piedmont Queen dahlia bulbs I'd ordered for the front yard. |