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English
Etymology
door + yard
Noun
dooryard (plural dooryards)
- (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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