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Easter-egg hunt

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See also: Easter egg hunt

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Noun

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Easter-egg hunt (plural Easter-egg hunts)

  1. Alternative form of Easter egg hunt.
    • 1959 March, Lawrent Lee, “Frisky and Frosty”, in Jane Palmer, editor, Wee Wisdom: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume LXV, number 8, Lee’s Summit, Mo.: Unity School of Christianity, page 14, column 1:
      Coralee, make sure Anne knows that her daddy and I will be home in time to take you children to school for the Easter-egg hunt.
    • 1998, Teresa Fisher, “Easter”, in A Flavour of France (Food and Festivals), Hove, East Sussex: Wayland Publishers Limited, →ISBN, page 21:
      Easter-egg hunts are exciting races held on Easter Sunday each year. [] ◀ Looking for Easter eggs on an Easter-egg hunt.
    • 2000, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, “Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana”, in Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 7:
      There we began the beach season with an Easter-egg hunt that no one else in my circle could duplicate.