fox hunting
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English
Noun
- The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.
- 1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 319:
- At Plumtree the railway enters the pleasant, rolling Wolds, famous for fox-hunting.
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References
- “fox hunting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.