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loose box en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK) A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.
Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
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(archaic) A brougham or other vehicle kept for the use of a dame de compagnie.
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