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English
Etymology
From fowl + yard.
Noun
fowlyard (plural fowlyards)
- An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, First Slice:
- One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 128:nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.
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