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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CURTILAGE, n. In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
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1: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, grounds, curtilage]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French curtillage, from curtil garden, curtilage, from curt court Date: 14th century a piece of ground (as a yard or courtyard) within the fence surrounding a house
Oxford Reference Dictionary
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
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Curtilage Cur"ti*lage (k?r"t?-l?j), n. [OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court.] (Law) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. --Burrill.
