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Definition of Snuffbox
1. Noun. A small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket.
Definition of Snuffbox
1. n. A small box for carrying snuff about the person.
Definition of Snuffbox
1. Noun. A small box or container to hold snuff or loose tobacco. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snuffbox
1. a box for holding snuff [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snuffbox
Literary usage of Snuffbox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"He had also shown about a beautiful snuffbox he had with the crown prince's
portrait and my own on the lid, and had given himself airs which did not at all ..."
2. Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1901)
"... Appointment of Villeroy — The First Campaign — A snuffbox — Prince Eugene's
Plan — Attack and Defense of Cremona — Villeroy Made Prisoner — Appointment ..."
3. Westminster by Sir Walter Besant (1895)
"The Westminster boys of his time haunted the houses called the THE WESTMINSTER
snuffbox. Seven Chimneys or the Five Houses,—they were the old ..."
4. Westminster by Walter Besant (1895)
"WESTMINSTER snuffbox crowd pushing and fighting and springing rattles on each
other; and I remember the performers outside Richardson's marching about in ..."
5. Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)
"Don't you despise my snuffbox! People value it at about 100 thaler—particularly
the work.— 9. ... snuffbox ..."
6. Autobiography of William H. Seward, from 1801 to 1834: With a Memoir of His by William Henry Seward, Frederick William Seward (1877)
"The Staff snuffbox. — Smoking. now from foreigners and their descendants to the
real native Americans, the Governor held a conference, in March, ..."
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