英语词汇“writing、box”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

writing-box

释义

ˈwriting-box
[writing vbl. n. 13 + box n.²]
A small box for containing paper and other writing requisites. Also, a small portable writing-desk; cf. writing-desk 2.
1474Paston Lett. III. 110 My wryghtyng box of syprese.1757R. Bentley tr. Hentzner's Trav. 31 Two little silver cabinets..which she uses for writing boxes.1779Johnson L.P., Pope (1868) 416 That his writing-box should be set upon his bed before he rose.1817J. Evans Excurs. Windsor, etc. 164 A writing-box of sandal wood, inlaid with ivory.1837Lockhart Scott II. ii. 63 The..business which must be despatched before he had a right to close his writing-box.1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 312/2 Writing-box stands: the post-Restoration writing-box might be placed on a stand instead of a table. This had gate-legs and the fall-down flap of the box opened on to them for writing.1971Country Life 1 July 22/1 Portable table-desks or writing-boxes were recorded in the 15th century.

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