base court

English

Etymology

French basse-cour.

Noun

base court (plural base courts)

1. The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house, or outer court of a castle.
2. (law) An inferior court of law, not a court of record.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “base court”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• obscurate