2. Verb. (third-person singular of picnic) ¹
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Definition of Picnics
1. picnic [v] - See also: picnic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picnics
Literary usage of Picnics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"Among the numerous picnics to which' we were invited, there was one alone which,
as bearing in any way on my future, I must not omit from these confidential ..."
2. Book of Joyous Children by James Whitcomb Riley (1902)
"IN FERVENT PRAISE OF picnics picnics is fun 'at's purty hard to beat. I purt'-nigh
ruther go to them than eat ..."
3. Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855 by Frederick Harris Dawes Vieth (1907)
"However, in spite of a drawback of this kind, which was not of infrequent
occurrence, the picnics were a great success. Once a week at three o'clock in the ..."
4. Etiquette of Good Society by Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell (1893)
"Why People enjoy picnics—Private picnics—Conveyance of Guests and of ... THERE are
plenty of people who enjoy picnics besides the children for whose benefit ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"These, to the Turks, are favorite places for promenades, and even for picnics;
and on a pleasant day one A TURKISH CEMETERY. may see hundreds of them here, ..."
6. Manners and Rules of Good Society, Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by Member of the aristocracy (1888)
"picnics ANI) WATER-PARTIES. MANY things contribute to draw people into the country
and away from town in the month of September ; therefore, there is a far ..."