boîte

[ bwaht; French bwat ]

noun

, plural boîtes [bwahts, bw, a, t].

1. a nightclub; cabaret.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boîte¹

< French: box; Old French boiste < Vulgar Latin *buxita, for Late Latin buxida, formation based on Latin pyxis box ( pyx ), stem pyxid-, conflated with buxus box ³

Example Sentences

Available at La Boîte SHOLDIT Clutch Wrap Purse, $70 We can all agree the dorky passport holders and money bags have got to go.

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“This gave me the idea to start my boîte,” she says, using the French term for a start-up company.

From The Daily Beast

She leaned her arms carelessly on the table, and managed to glance into the lid of the boîte de beauté which he had given her.

From Project Gutenberg

And the time came, at the end of their engagement at La Boîte Blanche, when they lost even that precarious method of existence.

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A picturesque appearance among the hucksters of the market square is the boîte de carton seller.

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Tous ces cadeaux évoquaient pour Boum, ses cadeaux à lui que Line rangeait jadis dans la boîte.

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If this never-to-be-sufficiently-anathematized serpent which comes and goes like the boîte à surprise—the how do you call him?

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