Word of the Day
for Wednesday,
April 17, 2013
Bandbox \BAND-boks\, noun:
1. an area or structure that is smaller in dimensions or size than
the standard: It's
easy to hit home runs out of this bandbox.
2. a lightweight box of pasteboard, thin wood, etc., for holding a hat, clerical collars, or other articles of apparel.
2. a lightweight box of pasteboard, thin wood, etc., for holding a hat, clerical collars, or other articles of apparel.
But no park fed his
baseball soul as heartily as the small bandbox
of Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs.
-- Lorenzo Carcaterra, Midnight Angels, 2010
-- Lorenzo Carcaterra, Midnight Angels, 2010
There's promises
there, sir, enough to fill a bandbox
with…
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, The
History of Pendennis, 1848
The portmanteau bandbox entered English in the 1600s. It originally described a physical box where ruffs or collars, also called "bands" at that time, were stored, though it is currently used in a metaphorical sense.
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