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ballotins

ballotins is the plural of ballotin.

Meaning of ballotin

Noun

ballotin (plural ballotins)

  1. A small, elegant box (usually containing chocolates).
    • […] jingle bells chime in with the season's magic in this lovely tapestry ballotin filled with 1 6 oz. of assorted chocolates.1989 November, Texas Monthly, volume 17, number 11, page 179
  2. (obsolete) An officer in charge of a ballot box.
    • one Secretary or Ballotin with a red Box shall follow the green one: and every Senator shall put one Ball into for one of these six boxes1656, James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana

Questions about ballotins

What is ballotins the plural of?
Ballotins is the plural of ballotin.

Words near ballotins in the dictionary

  1. ballotines
  2. balloting
  3. ballotings
  4. ballotini
  5. ballotinone
  6. ballotins
  7. ballotist
  8. ballotists
  9. ballotless
  10. ballotry
  11. ballots

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