showyard

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English

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Etymology

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From show +‎ yard.

Noun

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showyard (plural showyards)

  1. An enclosed yard where livestock is exhibited.
    • 1883, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Prize-essays and Transactions, page 227:
      Young breeders should not rush into the showyard with animals bred by other people, and bought at high prices; neither should they, when desirous of starting a herd, purchase first prize animals in a highly overfed state.