单词 | show-box |
释义 | ˈshow-box [show n.1] A box in which objects of curiosity are exhibited; esp. a box containing a peep-show.
1748Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 28 Apr. (1775) 19 But were you to present me with the Views of the Leasowes, I own I should not put them into my show-box without pain. 1779Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 312 A Savoyard with a show-box. 1842Hawthorne Twice-t. T. Ser. ii. Seven Vagabonds (1883) 125 Rescuing the showbox of such a couple from a mob of great double-fisted countrymen. fig.1789Burns Fragm. inscribed to C. J. Fox 23 Mankind are his show box. |

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