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box-like en · ADJ

Etymology

From box + -like.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of boxlike.
   alt of boxlike
   • Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […] 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 31:
   • The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...]. 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:

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