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bandbox en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From band + box.

Meanings

1. A box of lightweight construction (e.g. cardboard, thin wood) for carrying hats or other apparel items.
   • There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues. 1836, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country, page 6:
   • On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood. 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 208:
2. A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.

Forms

Deriveds

bandboxical · bandboxy

Hypernyms

box