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plural fowlyards
- An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl.
[A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 1281 more example
One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, First Slice
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