Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perverted form (as if court +
ledge ) of courtilage, usually curtilage.
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Examples
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One found in a 'court,' courtledge (or homestead), by night (as we say in old English), may be killed.
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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