marooning party

English

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.
   • 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