barn-yard

I suppose "classically trained" violinist distinguishes the training from home-lernt bluegrass, calypso, zydeco, barn-yard square-dance fiddler.

"A quirky mix of Gypsy ballads, jazz, folk and art-rock, with frequently whistled melodies." Ann Althouse 2009

Hob came to visit his friends of the Halidome, and share the festivity common among country folk, after the barn-yard has been filled, and to renew old intimacies by new conviviality.

The Monastery 2008

But either way you look at it, both vegetarians and budgetarians can be considered “barn-yard friendly.”

The Cheapest Man in the Universe 2008

The turf-stack, the barn-yard, the offices stocked with cattle, all the wealth of an upland cultivator of the period, of which poor Elliot possessed no common share, had been laid waste or carried off in a single night.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Late in the evening I heard the distant rumbling of wagons over bridges — a sound heard farther than almost any other at night — the baying of dogs, and sometimes again the lowing of some disconsolate cow in a distant barn-yard.

Walden 2004

Perhaps you may still contrive, now you have exhausted the barn, to pick up a grain or two in the barn-yard.

Lavengro 2004

After his death, three days after the barn-yard speech, the socialism he professes is drastically altered when Napoleon and the other pigs begin to dominate.

Animal Farm Character Profiles 1995

The prevalent ideas respecting the reproduction of animals are made up from the daily observation of those immediately about us in the barn-yard and the farm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

It is true, that most farmers depend on the natural fertility of the soil to nourish their crops, with perhaps the aid of a little stable and barn-yard manure, given to a part of them.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Outside, the creaking wagons were being driven into the barn-yard.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers