flower box

American  

noun

1. a box used for growing decorative plants in or around the home, often attached to a window ledge.

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Etymology

Origin of flower box

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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flower box

Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Duggan, who said he dove behind a flower box to escape the gunfire, later complained on a neighborhood email group that he saw no police on 18th Street from Friday night into Saturday.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

Hagans said he wanted to honor Ford by leaving the flower box, noting he would build a thousand more if he could, WTVM-TV reported.

From Fox News ● Feb. 16, 2022

Sprinkled throughout are whimsical garden scenes that use trompe l’oeil to conjure up a flower box populated by sprites, songbirds perched on a trellis and other vignettes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013

For several hours one night, he tucked it into Madame Manec’s geraniums in a window flower box, then convinced himself the geraniums were wilting and dug the stone out.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr