pencil box

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 Term
Angela 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 Arizona
Annie Fellows Johnston