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fox hunting EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox. Liberaldictionary.com

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Origin of fox hunting First recorded in 1665–75 Related formsfox hunter, noun Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for fox-hunting Contemporary Examples of fox-hunting

Fox-hunting bans and motor transport have played their part in the literary decline.

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Historical Examples of fox-hunting

They never got over their love for fox-hunting and pigeon-shooting.

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From all that I could learn, head-hunting is a sport, like fox-hunting in England.

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The said ham was just prepared for the colonels supper; but in fox-hunting all is forgiven.

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Fox-hunting for two centuries has been the natural pastime of the Virginia gentry.

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Fox-hunting is not the theme, but the conversation is loud, animated, and discursive.

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British Dictionary definitions for fox-hunting fox-hunting noun a sport in which hunters follow a pack of hounds in pursuit of a fox Derived Formsfox-hunter, noun Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for fox-hunting n.

1670s, from fox (n.) + hunting. Related: Fox-hunt; fox-hunter.