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hunting expedition

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Noun1.hunting expeditionhunting expedition - an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
safari, campaign
expedition - a journey organized for a particular purpose
Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean


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You must know that all this time the king, my uncle, was absent on a hunting expedition, and as no one knew when he would be back, I at last decided to return home, leaving the ministers to make my excuses.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
Ducie Street was not discovered till the Monday, the day that Margaret and her husband went down on their hunting expedition to Howards End.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
A third, being encamped on a hunting expedition full forty miles south of the White Mountains, awoke at midnight, and beheld the Great Carbuncle gleaming like a meteor, so that the shadows of the trees fell backward from it.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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