Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Animals Elite Hunting Sports Women Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since the middle ages, yet the … the hare. From humble origins, foxhunting was rapidly becoming a high status pursuit, attracting fashionable, moneyed sportsmen. One final development in the world of eighteenth-century hunting worth noting is the gradual exclusion of …
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