Meanings
nounchurch-yard (plural church-yards)
plural church-yards
- alternativeAlternative form of churchyard.
[…] we should have carried on the garden wall, and made the plantation to shut out the church-yard, just as Dr. Grant has done.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 110
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