setting-out

He had shaken hands, perhaps not altogether graciously, with every one else, even with the deaf-and-dumb gardener who came out of his hiding-place to witness the setting-out.

From Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund

Miss Twitchel and Miss Jones were talking about it; and they all say that there would be the best setting-out got for her that was ever seen in Newport, if it should happen.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

I should like to emphasise the importance of the setting-out work necessary for brush-drawing.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The news of his Sister's setting-out relieved him of a great and continual anxiety.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

He enter’d into the Service very young, and distinguished himself at his first setting-out, so that he really owes his Advancement more to his Services and Merit, than to Fortune.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz