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curtilage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun curtilage has 1 sense
- curtilage(n = noun.artifact) grounds, yard - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" has particulars: backyard, dooryard, front yard, garden, playground, side yard
is a kind of field
CIDE DICTIONARY
curtilage, n. [OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court.].
A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
curtilage, n. an area attached to a dwelling-house and forming one enclosure with it.
Etymology
ME f. AF curtilage, OF co(u)rtillage f. co(u)rtil small court f. cort COURT
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