club-walking

noun

An annual procession, usually held on Whitmonday, of members of a sick club, common in British villages in the nineteenth century.

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nounclub-walking (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableAn annual procession, usually held on Whitmonday, of members of a sick club, common in British villages in the nineteenth century.

    `What's that?' said Durbeyfield. `Not on account o' I?' `'Tis the women's club-walking, Sir John. Why, your daughter is one o' the members.'

    1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12
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