dooryard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dooryard
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Plus, many Vermonters have - for more than a century now - taken great pride in the ingenuity and resourcefulness of dooryard junkers.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was beaming as Harry drove his Rosalind and Audrey into the dooryard.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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