"dooryard" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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, […]",
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          "text": "\"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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        "the yard near the front or back door of a house"
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          "front",
          "front door"
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          "back door",
          "back door"
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          "house",
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        "(Vermont, Maine, Atlantic Canada) the yard near the front or back door of a house"
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          "word": "barnyard"
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          "word": "ambit"
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          "word": "curtilage"
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  "word": "dooryard"
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  "etymology_text": "door + yard",
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          "text": "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, […]",
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          "text": "\"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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