dooryard

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Etymology[edit]

door +‎ yard

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dooryard (plural dooryards)

  1. (Vermont, Maine, Atlantic Canada) the yard near the front or back door of a house
    • 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:
      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, […]
    • 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."

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