Definition of back_yard

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

You still have your paper hat and you 're wearing it , but then , it is an extraordinary paper hat and , in_addition to anything else you may be , you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back_yard .

We 'd seen his handiwork out in the back_yard , and the little his tenants had told us of him did make him sound a_little special .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences , where one man 's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy .