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

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

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

She left him free—that he knew; he could still carry out his hunting box programme in full.

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

Apropos of that hunting box," the gentleman added--he was one of the disinherited Wildenaus--"you might let me have it, Cousin.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Thirteen years ago," he said, "two young men—call them by their Christian names, Wingrave and Lumley—shared a somewhat extensive hunting box in Leicestershire.

From The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)