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Meaning of dooryard | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

the yard near the front or back door of a house

Atlantic-Canada, Maine

Examples

“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, […]”
“"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."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

dooryard dock doos doose Doose syndrome doosooty doosra

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