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chocolate box

chocolate box is the alternative form of chocolate-box.

Meaning of chocolate-box

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

Forms of chocolate box

comparativemore chocolate box
superlativemost chocolate box

Questions about chocolate box

What is chocolate box the alternative form of?
Chocolate box is the alternative form of chocolate-box.

Words near chocolate box in the dictionary

  1. chocolate block
  2. chocolate bomb
  3. chocolate bombs
  4. chocolate boobook
  5. chocolate boobooks
  6. chocolate box
  7. chocolate boxy
  8. chocolate brownie
  9. chocolate brownies
  10. chocolate cake
  11. chocolate cakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chocolate box (page history and authors); chocolate-box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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