an-airing

Updated: July 16, 2025

He was rather a palace dog, a chateau, or a shooting-box dog, who, in his off moments, trotted behind hunting carts filled with guns, sportsmen in knee-breeches, or in front of landaus when my lady went an-airing. And with all this, and quite naturally, he was a dog of breeding, who, while he insisted on his own rights, respected those of others.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others