Backyard
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A backyard is a yard at the back of a house which is commonly found in countries such as Australia.
In Australia, the backyard of a property would traditionally contain a fowl run outhouse, vegetable patch and woodheap. More recently, these have been replaced by outdoor entertainments such as a barbecue and swimming pool.[1] But, since the 1990s, the trend in Australian suburban development has been for backyards to disappear as the dwellings now occupy almost all of the building plot.[2]
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- ^ Patrick Nicol Troy (2000), "The big backyard", A history of European housing in Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-128, ISBN 9780521777339
- ^ Tony Hall (2010), The Life and Death of the Australian Backyard, CSIRO Publishing, ISBN 9780643098169
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