yard, grounds, curtilage
(noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building; “it was a small house with almost no yard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
curtilage (plural curtilages)
(legal) The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.
• (area around a house): grounds
• cutigeral, graticule
Source: Wiktionary
Cur"ti*lage (k, n. Etym: [OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court.] (Law)
Definition: A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 January 2025
(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
