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
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
Analysts debated the effect on his regular guy image, though the consensus seemed to be that viewing the game from the owner’s box was hardly an appeal to the lunchpail vote.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 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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