hatbox
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hatbox
Example Sentences
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Carter-Willis keeps a hatbox in her home jammed with press clippings, important documents and pictures related to her son’s case.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2017
“Life and death are always part of my art,” said Ms. Channoller, who brought a hatbox to transport her bird on the subway to her home in SoHo.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015
I’m proud to have been its owner, actually, even though I think I wore it exactly once, in Europe, to and from which it traveled in its own hatbox.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011
"When my family discovered that my widowed grandmother kept a handgun in a hatbox, we didn't have a problem with it because she grew up shooting jackrabbits and rattlesnakes in West Texas," Burnam said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 26, 2011
I wrapped my mother’s things in the falling-apart paper, tucked them back in the hatbox, and put the lid on it.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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