shooting-lodge love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hunting-box; a shooting-box.

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Examples

  • Built originally as a shooting-lodge, it has belonged for some years to the Brandons, who used to come here each year in summer from their home in the north of England.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Built originally as a shooting-lodge, it has belonged for some years to the Brandons, who used to come here each year in summer from their home in the north of England.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Abergeldie Castle, another Highland royal residence, an ancient building to which modern additions have been made, inhabited by King Edward VII. when prince of Wales, and after his accession to the throne used as a shooting-lodge.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The Emperor also had his shooting-lodge about three miles out, with a small house on the grounds.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • Glenesk, near Lord Dalhousie's shooting-lodge of Milldam, there is a rough granite boulder, on the upper surface of which a small human foot is scooped out with considerable accuracy, showing traces even of the toes.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Without a trail their first step seemed to be to visit the shooting-lodge whence Boris had made his sally.

    High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Anonymous

  • Kaltenhausen, to take but one example, there is a splendid shooting-lodge slapbang in the centre of the river; it has a fine courtyard walled and railed in.

    With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie

  • They were bound for a shooting-lodge, and so she asked him if he were fond of shooting.

    The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

  • "You and I are going out to 'Black Forest,' the Wallings 'shooting-lodge, to-morrow," Oliver added to his brother.

    The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

  • A man does not let himself be caught twice in such a blunder; and having visited a "shooting-lodge" which had cost three-quarters of a million dollars and was set in a preserve of ten thousand acres, he was prepared for Adirondack "camps" which had cost half a million and Newport "cottages" which had cost a million or two.

    The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

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