bandbox
Americannoun
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a lightweight box of pasteboard, thin wood, etc., for holding a hat, clerical collars, or other articles of apparel.
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an area or structure that is smaller in dimensions or size than the standard.
It's easy to hit home runs out of this bandbox.
noun
Other Word Forms
- bandboxical adjective
- bandboxy adjective
Etymology
Origin of bandbox
Example Sentences
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In the best essay ever written — baseball or otherwise — John Updike once tagged Fenway Park “a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2019
Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2018
Inevitably, this youngster, baby-faced and bandbox elegant, was mistrusted and permanently disparaged with the nickname “Junior.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2016
Given Chicago’s right-handed heavy lineup playing in the bandbox stadium, LeBlanc could have suffered a similar fate, if not worse.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2016
A small male human in a bandbox hat and many buttons operated the elevator.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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