marooning party

noun

A social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic.

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nounmarooning party (plural marooning parties)

plural marooning parties

  1. USdatedA social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic.

    It was made with different persons, and fitted out with more of accommodation and comfort; but the other, as made with my comrades, was more completely a marooning party

    1806, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies
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