I'm writing a story where a girl and her family live in the French countryside in a beautiful Villa... You know the type- big fountains and lovely draping greenery out front, pools in the back, dirt road, etc. What I was wondering seems as though it should be rather obvious. The 'yard' out front, with the fountain and a garden and trees and such, what would it be called? The first thing that came to mind was a courtyard, but by definition, courtyards are enclosed, and that's not what I'm envisioning. Does anyone have the correct term for it, or should I just stick with the term courtyard?
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Lemme get this straight... they live in a manor, right?
I'll look it up in the Jane Austen book I brought, thought that would be English terminology.
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