单词 | drawing box |
释义 | drawing boxn.ΚΠ 1599 J. Minsheu Dict. Eng. & Spanish in Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 270/2 A great Chest with drawing boxes in it. 1653 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 370 Cubboard of drawing boxes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xiii. 491/1 Drawers, or drawing Boxes. 2. A portable box containing pencils or other materials or instruments used for drawing. ΚΠ 1787 C. Dodd Curse of Sentiment I. xxiv. 116 I..perceived her sitting..at her commode table; and on it stood a small drawing-box... In her right hand she held a drawing-pencil. 1800 M. Edgeworth Mlle Panache i, in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) IV. 146 Lady Augusta's apartment, in which her writing desk, her drawing-box, and her piano-forte stood. 1902 Programm Karls-Gymnasiums Stuttgart 1901–2 7 The drawing box or case of mathematical instruments is filled up with some pair of compasses and other instruments. 2009 @wiccle 28 May in twitter.com (accessed 20 June 2019) My 3 year old daughter decided to steal my mobile & hide it in her little pink drawing box..hours ripping the house apart for it!! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1599 |
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