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chocolate-box
[ chaw-kuh-lit-boks, chok-uh-, chawk-lit-, chok- ]
adjective
- excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified:
decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties.
chocolate-box
noun
- informal.modifier sentimentally pretty or appealing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chocolate-box1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
No, mark you, he'd take jolly good care that his sentimentality didn't make him see her as a chocolate-box picture!
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After all these weeks you're going to throw me away like an old chocolate-box.
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Like that, like that, at any rate, she no longer looked like the picture on a chocolate-box.
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Not strictly beautiful, perhaps; but then I don't like the chocolate-box sort of woman.
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Annabel had wriggled off the sofa and was pointing to a gay chocolate box on the mahogany wash-stand that served as a sideboard.
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