knife box
noun
a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
Origin of knife box
1First 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.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million | Sarah Josepha HaleIf she had not behaved as she did Bertie or Eva would have remembered to clean out the knife-box.
Oswald Bastable and Others | Edith NesbitOn it stood a tea-caddy of mahogany, a knife-box, and several silver boxes.
Polly's Business Venture | Lillian Elizabeth RoyThe sideboard, too, is of the seventeenth century, and on this is a knife box of the latter quarter of this century.
Historic Homes | Mary H. NorthendSo he borrowed the large kitchen knife-box and went out, and brought it in full of nice real clean mould out of the garden.
Oswald Bastable and Others | Edith Nesbit
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