curtilage
2 synonyms for curtilage, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (law) The land and buildings right around a house that legally count as part of the property.
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English courtelage, curtilage, curtylage ("vegetable garden; croft; gardening, farming"), from Anglo-Norman curtilage, from Old French cortillage, courtillage (surviving as the obsolete modern French courtillage; compare Medieval Latin cortilagium, curtilagium). That came from cortil, cortill ("sm...
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