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hunting box

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of hunting box1

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Example Sentences

I will move into the White House, but keep an apartment in New York, a house in Beverly Hills and a hunting box in Central Park.

We found the man who inhabits the simple wooden house which used to be Carl August's hunting-box.

“That house was erected as a hunting-box by one of my predecessors many years ago,” observed the Count.

Fortier had been almoner of the old hunting-box in the woods and as such was keeper of the lumber-room.

About fifty yards beyond it stood a hunting-box belonging to the Nawab of Oude.

On the river bank, a little in advance of the grove, was a hunting box belonging to the nabob, surrounded by a masonry wall.

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