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View synonyms for window box
window box
noun
- a box for growing plants, placed at or in a window.
- a hollow space in a window frame for a sash weight.
window box
noun
- a long narrow box, placed on or outside a windowsill, in which plants are grown
- either of a pair of vertical boxes, attached to the sides of a sash window frame, that enclose a sash cord and counterbalancing weight
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Word History and Origins
Origin of window box1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
I invest in the plants that are told me to be best adapted to window-box culture.
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Patsy stamped slowly up the two flights, and rummaged in a very mussy window-box for a silk waist.
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Upon finishing the note an impulse to accompany it with a small nosegay culled from my window box came upon me.
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A window-box of narcissus in full bloom breathed a perfume, as deadening as the juice of poppies, on the air.
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It was the window-box of a factory lad in one of the great northern manufacturing towns.
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