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单词 pounce box
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pounce2 /powns/

noun
  1. Sandarach, cuttle-bone, or other fine powder formerly used for preparing a writing surface or absorbing ink
  2. Coloured powder shaken through perforations to mark a pattern on a surface beneath
transitive verb
  1. To prepare with pounce
  2. To trace, transfer or mark with pounce
  3. To powder or sprinkle (obsolete)
ORIGIN: Fr ponce pumice, from L pūmex, pūmicis

pounce bag or pounce box noun

A perforated bag or box for sprinkling pounce

pounce pot noun

A container for pounce for preparing writing surfaces, etc

pouncet-box /pownˈsit-boks/

noun
  1. A pomander (also shortened to pounˈcet; Shakespeare)
  2. Sometimes used for pounce box (see under pounce2)
ORIGIN: Prob for pounced-box, ie perforated box; see pounce2
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