pan yardn. originally and chiefly Caribbean an area where a steel band practises and stores its pans.
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1980 T. Eigeland in Isles of Caribbean (National Geographic Soc.) 28 There are also visits to the ‘pan-yards’ where the steel bands practice before the big Carnival parades.
1995 Caribbean Week Jan. 25/1 The action now steams up in the panyards, the calypso tents and the Mas Camps.