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pillar boxes

pillar boxes is the plural of pillar box.

Meaning of pillar box

Noun

pillar box (plural pillar boxes)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar (green in the Irish Republic) with a slot for posting letters.
    • We were over the border here, into Northern Ireland, and the post office had a very English atmosphere. It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green...1955 June, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 393

Questions about pillar boxes

What is pillar boxes the plural of?
Pillar boxes is the plural of pillar box.

Words near pillar boxes in the dictionary

  1. pillaloo
  2. pillar
  3. pillar block
  4. pillar blocks
  5. pillar box
  6. pillar boxes
  7. pillar candle
  8. pillar candles
  9. pillar dollar
  10. pillar dollars
  11. pillar drill

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