Etymology
Origin of lunchpail
Example Sentences
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The old-fashioned lunchpail jobs that had once been available to boys like me dwindled: plants, factories, camps and rigs closed down.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018
Our fathers were lunchpail baby boomers, rigid backbones of the postwar world.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018
Cluess boasted about Iona’s uptempo offense, but insisted the Gaels also carried “the old lunchpail mentality.”
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2016
A lunchpail Joe who would have been shunned elsewhere could invest his family’s savings in a Vanguard fund due to their low minimums.
From Forbes • Feb. 9, 2015
Sula squatted down in the dirt road and put everything down on the ground: her lunchpail, her reader, her mittens, her slate.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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