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chocolate-box

chocolate-box adjective: having a twee picturesqueness.

Adjective

chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)

  1. (UK, derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
    • He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade
    • The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values

Forms of chocolate-box

comparativemore chocolate-box
superlativemost chocolate-box
alternative formchocolate box
alternative formchocolate-boxy
alternative formchocolate boxy

Origin of chocolate-box

From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.

Questions about chocolate-box

What does chocolate-box mean?
Chocolate-box means having a twee picturesqueness.
What part of speech is chocolate-box?
Chocolate-box is an adjective.

Words near chocolate-box in the dictionary

  1. chocolate tube slime
  2. chocolate vine
  3. chocolate vines
  4. chocolate wattled bat
  5. chocolate wattled bats
  6. chocolate-box
  7. chocolate-boxy
  8. chocolate-brown
  9. chocolate-chipper
  10. chocolate-chippers
  11. chocolate-chippy

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