innyard (pluralinn yards)

1. Alternative form ofinnyard.
   • 1849 May –1850 November,Charles Dickens, “The Wanderer”, inThe Personal History of David Copperfield, London:Bradbury & Evans, […], published1850,→OCLC,page416:

     I returned to theinn yard, and, impressed by my remembrance of the face, looked awfully around for it.

   • 1916, Daniel Homer Rich, “[Introduction] III.—The Elizabethan Playhouse”, inThe Merchant of Venice: As Originally Performed by Shakespeare’s Company (The Globe Theater Shakespeare), New York, N.Y., London:Harper & Brothers,pages xx–xxi:

     Theinn yards of the day afforded convenient enclosures for the performance; moreover, they were real centers of the social life of the village, attracting crowds of tradesmen, farmers, horse dealers, village hangers-on, travellers, gentlemen of quality, and, we can be sure, the inevitable small boy who always manages to attend such affairs without paying for the privilege.

   • 1943,Graham Greene, chapter 7, inThe Ministry of Fear, Vintage, published2004:

     His heart beat at the sight of her, as though he were a young man and this his first assignation outside a cinema, in a Lyons Corner House . . . or in aninn yard in a country town where dances were held.

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