hatbox
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hatbox (plural hatboxes)
- A piece of luggage for a hat; a case or box for a hat.
- 1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times[1]:
- A green and pink plaid hat box contains eight more hatboxes that can be stacked like a set of Russian nesting dolls.
- 2015 November 24, Troy Patterson, “The Winter Hat Trick”, in The New York Times Magazine[2]:
- Get a whiff of the models that served our grandfathers well: They now combine the must of a midcentury hatbox with the musk of 21st-century body spray.
Hypernyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a piece of luggage, case, or box for a hat
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