knife box

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noun

a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.

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Origin of knife box

First recorded in 1770–80

Large and small tray napkins and knife-box cloths, are made in the same manner.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million|Sarah Josepha Hale
If she had not behaved as she did Bertie or Eva would have remembered to clean out the knife-box.
Oswald Bastable and Others|Edith Nesbit
On it stood a tea-caddy of mahogany, a knife-box, and several silver boxes.
Polly's Business Venture|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
The sideboard, too, is of the seventeenth century, and on this is a knife box of the latter quarter of this century.
Historic Homes|Mary H. Northend

So he borrowed the large kitchen knife-box and went out, and brought it in full of nice real clean mould out of the garden.
Oswald Bastable and Others|Edith Nesbit