glove box
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noun
an enclosed compartment with openings to which long gloves are attached, enabling someone outside the compartment to reach inside and handle its contents without causing or incurring injury or contamination, as in a laboratory or hospital.
Origin of glove box
1855–60 for earlier sense
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Examples from the Web for glove box
Historical Examples of glove box
She sprang up, ran to a writing-desk and took out a glove-box.
She took the glove-box, and turning placed it on a shelf behind her.
Mary MarstonGeorge MacDonald
This tiny Japanese lady, whom you left, as you thought, on the lid of the glove-box at home.
He had left a thumb-nail mark upon a glove-box, and evidence was given as to the identity of this with his own thumb-print.
Science and the CriminalC. Ainsworth Mitchell
Opening it, the Countess disclosed a glove-box of wood, with a design of rather shaky violets burnt into the cover.
Long Live the KingMary Roberts Rinehart
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