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An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.
example
She sat in the courtyard, enjoying the garden.
Examples of courtyard in a Sentence
She looked again at the sunlit courtyard beyond her window.
He followed the group to the courtyard to spar.
The sounds of sparring in the courtyard drew no interest this morning.
Two hours later the carts were standing in the courtyard of the Bogucharovo house.
During the warm weather, dining is available in the outdoor courtyard.
He started toward the courtyard.
The courtyard was packed with women in brown robes and Immortals.
Patio doors gave access to a small courtyard at the back of the house.
He glared at it and strode into the well-lit courtyard of the Sanctuary.
With a curse, he rose and ran to the courtyard, changing into his demon bird.
Above the door that leads to the castle courtyard.
If you happen to come to the museum in good weather, visit the Allen Family Courtyard-- it's like a museum in itself.
Jake shot off a burst of rounds as several vamps raced across the courtyard, their red eyes glowing and growls loud.
Ready, he left his room and walked through the courtyard.
We also have a courtyard, which is five acres.
A glazed atrium over the central courtyard ensures your visit is unspoiled by the vagaries of the weather.
When she was close enough to the house, she ran to the courtyard and slipped in through the back door.
Wyndham Gettysburg or Courtyard by Marriott Gettysburg also feature a number of affordable family vacation packages that include hotel accommodations and admission to Hershey Park, as well as admission to other local attractions.
The Mexican courtyard ambiance is spectacular, with colorful walls covered with mirages and caricatured statues of old Mexico.
Guests may choose be seated in the stately dining room or at a table in the courtyard overlooking the hotel swimming pool.
In the courtyard stood the sacrificial altar, which had statues on either side.
Some overlook the village pond and mill stream, the remainder our courtyard and walled garden.
Petya was galloping along the courtyard, but instead of holding the reins he waved both his arms about rapidly and strangely, slipping farther and farther to one side in his saddle.
Some Mediterranean homes have a courtyard in the center of the home creating an inner sanctuary.
You can create an outside room in your Mediterranean courtyard.
The size of your courtyard will determine the size of your fountain.
Eventually, you'll get to the Minas Tirith Courtyard.
Each deluxe room is approximately 385 square feet, giving you plenty of room to wander, sprawl, or enjoy the gorgeous city and courtyard views from your window.
Set in a small apartment courtyard in West Hollywood, the series followed the residents as they pursued their love, passion, dreams, desires and more.
Rhyn shoved past Kiki into a small courtyard.
The woman pursed her lips and crossed her arms, eyeing him. "I'll get him," Toby shouted from across the courtyard.
Grabbing a rag, she exited the laundry into the courtyard.
Of the secular buildings of the beginning of the 15th century, the most notable is the Palazzo Borromeo, which still preserves its Gothic courtyard.
Triada in 1913 found a portico bordering a courtyard of the palace, a large deposit of inscribed clay tablets, and a well-preserved L.M.
Below the second terrace at the south-west end a large and complicated building, with an open courtyard surrounded on three sides by a colonnade and with chambers opening out towards the north, may have served as a gymnasium or a sanatorium.
The exterior is simple, but the buildings which surround the main courtyard have high-pitched roofs surmounted by numerous dormer windows with decorated gables, recalling the Flemish style of architecture.
Cross station of the South-Eastern & Chatham railway, in the courtyard of which a fine modern cross has been erected within a few feet of the exact site.
In the north corner of the courtyard is the Salle des Etats, which, together with the donjon in the west corner, survives from the 13th century.
Of the castle of Newcastle, built on the edge of a cliff above the church of that parish, there remain a courtyard with flanking towers and a fine Norman gateway.
The portico is composed of forty-eight pillars, the whole enclosed in an oblong courtyard about 140 feet by 90 feet, surrounded by a double colonnade of smaller pillars, forming porticos to a range of fifty-five cells, which enclose it on all sides, exactly as they do in a Buddhist monastery (vihara).
The prefecture occupies the buildings of the famous abbey of St Aubin; in its courtyard are elaborately sculptured arcades of the 11 th and 12th centuries, from which period dates the tower, the only survival of the splendid abbeychurch.
Apart from the outworks, the castle forms an irregular square with round towers at the angles, the principal buildings being grouped round a central courtyard, the entrance to which is from the south through a series of gateways.
In this courtyard, besides the buildings already mentioned, are the oldest parts of the castle, the so-called Alte Bau (old building) and the Bandhaus.
Other noteworthy objects in the castle are the fountain in the courtyard, decorated with four granite columns from Charlemagne's palace at Ingelheim; the Elisabethentor, a beautiful gateway named after the English princess; the beautiful octagonal bell-tower at the N.E.
In a cellar entered from the courtyard is the famous Great Tun of Heidelberg.
In the inner courtyard of the mosque stands the Iron Pillar, which is probably the most ancient monument in the neighbourhood of Delhi, dating from about A.D.
The Palazzo Rufolo, begun in the 11th century, has two lofty towers and beautiful Saracenic decoration in the courtyard.
The Bateke build their houses in circular groups opening on a sort of courtyard; the houses in Bangala villages are built in parallel rows about 200 ft.
In 1881 the walls of a very large courtyard were constructed by building a braced cage of iron and filling the panels with masonry, a system of construction which had been used in the early part of the century for a tall shot-tower erected in the city of New York.
It forms one side of a courtyard, which is shaded by a group of magnificent chenar trees.