Meaning of inn yard | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“I returned to the inn yard, and, impressed by my remembrance of the face⟳, looked awfully around for it.”

“The inn yards of the day afforded convenient enclosures for the performance; moreover, they were real centers of the social life of the village, attracting crowds of tradesmen, farmers, horse dealers, village hangers-on, travellers, gentlemen of quality, and, we can be sure, the inevitable small boy who always manages to attend⟳ such affairs without paying for the privilege.”

“His heart beat⟳ at the sight of her, as though he were a young man and this his first assignation outside a cinema, in a Lyons Corner House . . . or in an inn yard in a country town where dances were held.”

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