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The word "courtyard" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to an outdoor area that is surrounded by walls or buildings, such as in a castle, monastery, or school. Example Sentence: We enjoyed drinking tea in the courtyard, surrounded by the vibrant roses and ivy.
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courtyard
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An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
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Probably the most daring of all of the great escapes from La Santé was that of Michel Vaujour in 1986, whose wife, Nadine, swooped into the courtyard to snatch him up in a helicopter she was piloting.
One piece, a vast six-foot high sculpture made from steel by Conrad Shawcross, dominates the RA courtyard, while a specially commissioned work by Turner-nominated Jim Lambie sees the gallery's central staircase transformed into a multi-coloured artwork.
The small doorway leads into a huge, 19th-century riad centred around a beautiful courtyard, filled with lemon trees and trickling marble fountains; the edge of the space is taken up by arches that create little nooks to drink, sit, read and stare at the blue sky above.
Its solar-powered pumps, tanks and filter banks are capable of filtering larger quantities of water stored in a 150,000-litre reservoir underneath the central courtyard, and pumped daily to provide drinking water on demand.
Back in the courtyard in Iganga, Robert is listing the products he was prescribed six months ago.
As reported last year, the view from the open courtyard in the centre of the mosque is now choked with cranes, jostling for position with minarets and towers; but this year there is a new addition just metres from the Kaaba itself.
Hundreds of women and children could be seen in footage aired by the Lebanese channel al-Mayadeen sitting in what appeared to be a large courtyard.
Soon after a group of men gather in the mosque courtyard, eager to relate their plight to foreign strangers.
You can sit in the courtyard around a brazier and eat llama a la pobre – fatty, tender llama meat on the bone, served with chips, fried eggs and onions.
"If I was a bad student and hung out in the courtyard, drank and swore, it would be better [for her] than me being who I am now," he said.
Which brings us to the optics of another portrayal of Indigenous Australians at the memorial – the stone gargoyles depicting an Aboriginal man and woman set, consecutively, at the end of two native fauna in the memorial's courtyard.
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