sandwich box
sandwich box noun: a container designed to store and transport sandwiches.
Noun
sandwich box (plural sandwich boxes)
- A container designed to store and transport sandwiches.
- FORSTER & DAVIS Will sell by public auction, at their Mart, THIS DAY, the 11th March, instant, at twelve o’clock, […] One egg whisk / Six Sandwich boxes assorted / Six gravy strainers […]1843 March 11, The Port Phillip Gazette, volume V, number 433, Melbourne, Vic., page [3], column 5
- There were railway hotels, coffee-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses; railway plans, maps, views, wrappers, bottles, sandwich-boxes, and time tables; railway hackney-coach and cab-stands; railway omnibuses, railway streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and parasites, and flatterers out of...1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 155
- Synonyms:
- lunchbox
Synonyms of sandwich box
Forms of sandwich box
| plural | sandwich boxes |
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Questions about sandwich box
- What does sandwich box mean?
- Sandwich box means a container designed to store and transport sandwiches.
- What part of speech is sandwich box?
- Sandwich box is a noun.
- What is the plural of sandwich box?
- The plural of sandwich box is sandwich boxes.
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