hunting box

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.

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Etymology

Origin of hunting box

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

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hunting box

The Guests have homes in Palm Beach and Roslyn, L.I., and rent a "hunting box" in Virginia, have turned their Manhattan apartment into a showcase for their English and French antiques and porcelains.

From Time Magazine Archive

What about the little hunting box not far from Melton, where, in the dear long ago, he had always pictured himself and his wife wintering?

From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Admiral Sir David Beatty, of North Sea fame, has a hunting box at Brooksby Hall, in the Melton Mowbray country.

From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace

It was built in 1721-1724 by Frederick Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently King Augustus III. of Poland, as a hunting box, and was often the scene of brilliant festivities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

A little north of the grove, on the bank of the river Cossimbazar, stood a stone hunting box belonging to Sirajuddaula.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert