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glory-box

glory-box is the alternative form of glory box.

Meaning of glory box

Noun

glory box (plural glory boxes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
    • Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order.1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148

Forms of glory-box

pluralglory-boxes

Questions about glory-box

What is glory-box the alternative form of?
Glory-box is the alternative form of glory box.

Words near glory-box in the dictionary

  1. glory supporter
  2. glory tree
  3. glory trees
  4. glory wall
  5. glory walls
  6. glory-box
  7. glory-boxes
  8. glory-bush
  9. glory-hole
  10. glory-holes
  11. glory-hunter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glory-box (page history and authors); glory 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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