iceboxn.

1792 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 3 Sept. (advt.) An excellent side board, with ice box and drawers.

1846 St. Louis (Missouri) Reveille 9 Sept. 4/5 Everything requisite for funerals, such as Hearse, Carriages,..Ice, Ice-boxes.

1874 Sci. Rec. 134 The serpentine pipes of the ice-box are surrounded by a solution of hydrochlorate of lime.

1908 P. G. Wodehouse & H. Westbrook Globe by Way Bk. 13/2 His brain worked like a buzz-saw in an ice-box.

1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 9/1 With a covered bowl or jelly tumbler in the ice-box,..the hostess is prepared for any emergency in the line of unexpected visitors.

1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 267 She's usually got a bottle of sody pop in the icebox.

1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 293 Idgie went over to the icebox in the kitchen and handed him a bouquet of tiny sweetheart roses.

2009 New Yorker 8 June 122/2 What my mother would have called a kakabarly—a large, foaming broth into which she emptied the forlorn and highly miscellaneous contents of her icebox.

1909 J. London in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/2 When a freshman he had been baptized ‘Ice-Box’ by his warmer-blooded fellows.

1915 Congregationalist 20 May The prison discipline was an ice-box for overheated temper, and he learned how to solidify his gaseous feelings and therefore to restrain them.

1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 226/1 Old Jim was telling how he had been locked by mistake in the deadhouse icebox, with a hundred corpses hanging by ear clamps all around him.

1938 D. Castle Do your Own Time v. 45 Scavengers..cut down the hanged men, place them in cheap coffins, and cart them to the ‘ice box’, as the morgue is known in prison.

1943 W. Lewis Let. 31 Mar. (1963) 352 We are freezing out here [i.e. in Canada] slowly, in this icebox of a country.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 173 Icebox, a co-ed engaged to a young man in a distant college who refuses to date at all while at college.

1983 R. Smith in W. Lewis Self Condemned 412 There are, it is true, idiotic puppets in the sanctimonious ice-box of Momaco.

2007 Smithsonian Mar. 28/3 Though ridiculed as an ‘icebox’, or a ‘polar bear garden’, some 586,000 square miles of Alaska join America when U.S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward signs a treaty to buy the land from Russia.