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marooning parties

marooning parties is the plural of marooning party.

Meaning of marooning party

Noun

marooning party (plural marooning parties)

  1. (US, dated) A 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 party1806, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies

Questions about marooning parties

What is marooning parties the plural of?
Marooning parties is the plural of marooning party.

Words near marooning parties in the dictionary

  1. Maroondah
  2. marooned
  3. marooner
  4. marooners
  5. marooning
  6. marooning parties
  7. marooning party
  8. maroonings
  9. maroonish
  10. maroons
  11. Maroot

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