hatbox
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hatbox
Example Sentences
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Nearby is a hatbox that was a prop in “Head Over Heels,” and a small wooden chest that a friend’s grandfather made for Ms. Milligan as an opening night gift.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
As in the past, customers’ heads are measured with a Victorian-looking contraption called a conformateur; purchases come in a hand-cut, paper-and-card hatbox, a souvenir in and of itself.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
You may quibble at the way Sebastian, knowing Lydia's background, seems indifferent to Soviet imperialism, and, for a dramatist of Rattigan's skill, there is excessive dependence on confidential papers hidden in a hatbox.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 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
She came to rest on the hatbox, the biohazard box that someone had been using as a chair.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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