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单词 bandboxy
释义 bandboxy, a.|ˈbændbɒksɪ|
[f. bandbox + -y1.]
Resembling a bandbox in shape, the fragility of its structure, or its restricted accommodation. (Cf. bandboxical a.)
1855B. Taylor Pictures of Palestine xxxvi. 428 Those bandboxy sombreros which I at first thought so ungainly.1891Cornh. Mag. Feb. 160 Houses,..light and small and bandboxy.1896C. Allen Papier Mâché 80 Sheds, and bandboxy houses all tilted up on stumps.
b. Extremely neat. U.S.
1870L. M. Alcott Old-Fash. Girl xii. 195 The dance and the race had taken the ‘band-boxy’ air out of Tom's elegant array.
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