Meaning of Bandbox | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A box of lightweight construction (e.g. cardboard, thin wood) for carrying hats or other apparel items.
2. A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.

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Examples

“There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.”

“On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood.”

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