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an outdoor room with walls but no roof, where buildings learn to hold the sky
means An open area enclosed by walls or buildings, usually attached to a house, castle, or larger structure.
from A compound of 'court' and 'yard.' 'Court' came through Old French 'cort' from Latin 'cohors, cohort-' — an enclosure, and also the band of soldiers or attendants gathered within it (the same root that gives us 'cohort'). 'Yard' is solidly Germanic, from Old English 'geard,' meaning an enclosure or fence, a cousin of the 'gard' in 'garden' and the Russian 'gorod' (town). So both halves mean roughly 'enclosed space' — the word doubles down, an enclosure of an enclosure.
- ancient roots
- Courtyard homes date back over 5,000 years
- climate trick
- Open center cools surrounding rooms naturally
- latin origin
- From cohors, meaning enclosed yard or troop
- prison echo
- Inmates often call exercise yards courtyards
- hidden world
- Many face inward, invisible from the street
alhambra court of lions — granada palace with 124 marble columns surrounding a central garden, built 14th century
forbidden city imperial court — beijing's outer court where 500+ officials conducted state business, covers 720,000 sq meters
trinity college great court — cambridge's largest courtyard at 2 acres, surrounded by renaissance and modern architecture