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pillarbox

pillarbox is the alternative form 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

Forms of pillarbox

pluralpillarboxes

Questions about pillarbox

What is pillarbox the alternative form of?
Pillarbox is the alternative form of pillar box.

Words near pillarbox in the dictionary

  1. pillar-biters
  2. pillar-box red
  3. pillar-box reds
  4. pillararene
  5. pillararenes
  6. pillarbox
  7. pillarboxed
  8. pillarboxes
  9. pillarboxing
  10. pillared
  11. pillaret

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