shooting box
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shooting box
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the late Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard set up a shooting box on the site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex.
From Time Magazine Archive
I demand of him.—"Oh!" he responded again, "That is a shooting box of Lord Killfots."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 by Various
If you had Aladdin's lamp and asked for a shooting box, you could hardly expect to find anything more ideal than the Palette Ranch.
From A Woman Tenderfoot by Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin
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