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plural churchyards
A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard. quotations examples
They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict