egg rolling
Americannoun
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A Preston Council spokesperson said egg rolling in Preston dated back "more than 150 years and is a well-established tradition, regularly attracting 30,000 visitors each year".
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
One of the banned activities that was popular with kids at the time, egg rolling, moved two years later to the White House lawn, where an enthusiastic President Rutherford B. Hayes began a tradition.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2017
The White House has been yoked to the egg rolling event since 1878, when Rutherford B Hayes invited some children to propel eggs across the White House’s south lawn.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2017
Back in the 1870s, the hottest trend among Victorian kids was egg rolling.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2017
It was that of an egg rolling, as it were, spontaneously over the ground?
From The Castaways by Pearse, Lolbran
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