pencil box
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noun
a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
Origin of pencil box
First recorded in 1905–10
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Who's that one in the green jersey who sat by the window and dropped her pencil-box?
A Fortunate TermAngela Brazil
Everything in her pencil-box was examined, and laid back with care, the slate-rag folded and tucked under the moist sponge.
The Little Colonel in ArizonaAnnie Fellows Johnston