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Bandbox

noun

A light cylindrical box for holding light articles of attire (especially hats).

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"Bandbox" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Where's my bandbox?" Her voice came piercingly from her temporary seclusion. "Where'd they put it? It ain't here in sight! My soul! ...

— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown

... and say good-bye to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!" said Miss Jemima to that young lady, of whom nobody took any notice, and who was coming downstairs with her own bandbox. ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... only a little distance farther this poor Old Year was destined to enjoy a long, long sleep. I forgot to mention that when she seated herself on the steps she deposited by her side a very capacious bandbox in which, as is the custom among travellers of her sex, she carried a great deal of valuable property. Besides this luggage, there was a folio book under her arm very much resembling the annual volume of a newspaper. Placing this ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... I did not know that was your style before. Don't cultivate it, dear, if you hope to win manly hearts. Men like to do all the lecturing themselves, and I find it diplomatic to feign profound ignorance on all subjects, outside of a bandbox; it delights them so to enlighten us. No wonder they fancy us fools when we feign foolishness so ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... as if she had just emerged from the proverbial bandbox, nodded knowingly. "A Turkish bath, massage, something to tone ...

— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve

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