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Definition of Snuffboxes
1. snuffbox [n] - See also: snuffbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snuffboxes
Literary usage of Snuffboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arts Companion, Or A New Assistant for the Ingenious: In 3 Pts. Pt. 1 (1749)
"Of Japanning Iron, snuffboxes, XOT. ... lion p'ates or snuffboxes, and lay on
the- following preparation on the Top and Bottom, viz. ..."
2. The Practice of Diplomacy as Illustrated in the Foreign Relations of the by John Watson Foster (1906)
"But, as Prince Henry's list of presents shows, snuffboxes have given place in
diplomacy to cigarette cases. No longer is the old diplomat's advice, ..."
3. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1765)
"... containing 12 7 snuffboxes of wood, plain, the dozen • о ю о Pill boxes, or
boxes entred as fuch, ... 014 snuffboxes of ivory or ..."
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