marooning party
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Noun[edit]
marooning party (plural marooning parties)
- (US, dated) A social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic.
- 1806, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies:
- 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