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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PICNIC , a fcrin of entertainment in which the guests are invited to join an excursion to some See also:

place where a See also:meal can be taken in the open See also:air. During the first See also:half of the 19th See also:century the essential of a picnic was that the guests should each bring with them a contribution of provisions. At the beginning of the 19th century a society was formed in See also:London called the " Picnic Society," the members of which supped at the See also:Pantheon in See also:Oxford See also:Street, and See also:drew lots as to what See also:part of the meal each should See also:supply (see L. See also:Melville, The See also:Beaux of the Regency, 1908, i. 222). The See also:French See also:form pique-nique is said to be of See also:recent introduction in 1692 (See also:Menage, See also:Diet. etym.). It is doubtful whether picnic is merely a rhyming word, or can be referred to pique, pick, and nique, small See also:coin.

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