What is "courtyarded"

Usage examples of "courtyarded".

Banked flowers beside the pedestrian ways, cafés, the honeygold quadrangles of the University, courtyarded homes built around expanses of greenery and fountains.

We turned inland, away from the palace district, into a residen­tial district where the houses of the rich, blank-fronted and courtyarded, mixed helter-skelter with the rush-roofed hov­els of the poor.