Definition of "race-meeting" [race-meeting]

• A meeting for the purpose of horse-racing. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""We'll show an event," meaning the race-meeting as a whole, "and the human-interest stories around it.""
• "Publicity material describes celebrities being given a small amount of money and being challenged to get to that month's main international race-meeting by whatever means they can."
• "An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass."