knife box


noun
  1. a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.

Origin of knife box

1
First recorded in 1770–80

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How to use knife box in a sentence

  • Large and small tray napkins and knife-box cloths, are made in the same manner.

  • If she had not behaved as she did Bertie or Eva would have remembered to clean out the knife-box.

  • On it stood a tea-caddy of mahogany, a knife-box, and several silver boxes.

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  • The sideboard, too, is of the seventeenth century, and on this is a knife box of the latter quarter of this century.

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  • So he borrowed the large kitchen knife-box and went out, and brought it in full of nice real clean mould out of the garden.