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Definition of Hatboxes
1. hatbox [n] - See also: hatbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatboxes
Literary usage of Hatboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Maybrick Case: A Treatise ... on the Facts of the Case, and of the by Alexander William Macdougall (1891)
"He there saw two bandboxes or hatboxes on the floor at the head of the bed.
There was there a little raised place connected with the heating or ventilating ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"One remarks that he exacts an additional fifty per cent, for things requiring
careful handling, such as animals and hatboxes. We can understand his claim ..."
3. The Necessity for Criminal Appeal: As Illustrated by the Maybrick Case and by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick, Joseph Hiam Levy (1899)
"Then here is a table ; and here is another table, which stands before the window;
and here is the place where the two hatboxes were found of which I have ..."
4. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
"He removed a roll of lace, ribbons, and three bonnets, then emptied one of the
hatboxes and filled it with these items. "My pleasure, Alferes. ..."
5. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"blackbird, hatbox, form their plurals blackbirds, hatboxes, the first elements
of these compounds being as incapable of change of form as the first syllable ..."
6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1829)
"A servant's trunk, hatboxes, tables, dressing-glass and the window-glass, were
blown to pieces. In Mrs. Smart's bed-room, the chimney-piece and ..."
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