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noun
Base-court  n.  
1.
The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
2.
(Law) An inferior court of law, not of record.





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"Base-court" Quotes from Famous Books



... betake me somewhat oftener to my library. It is in the chief approach to my house, so that under my eyes are my garden, my base-court, my yard, and even the best rooms of my house. There, without order or method, I can turn over and ransack now one book and now another. Sometimes I muse, sometimes save; and walking up and down I indite and register these my humours, these my conceits. It ...
— The World's Greatest Books—Volume 14—Philosophy and Economics • Various


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