bandbox
nounEtymology From band + box.
1
A box of lightweight construction (e.g. cardboard, thin wood) for carrying hats or other apparel items.
- 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.1836, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country, page 6:
- 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.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 208:
2
A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.
- Derived terms
- bandboxical, bandboxy