chocolate-box
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See also: chocolate box
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.
Adjective
[edit]chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)
- (derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
- 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade:
- He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.
- 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values:
- The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.
- 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
- I find it difficult to pick a personal favourite from the two, but Wylam wins on the chocolate-box front, framed by an in-keeping (also Grade 2) footbridge just down the line from it, [...].
References
[edit]- “chocolate-box”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.