lunch-box

See also: lunch box and lunchbox

English

Noun

lunch-box (plural lunch-boxes)

1. Alternative form of lunchbox.
   • 1987, Guide to Places of the World: A Geographical Dictionary of Countries, Cities, Natural and Man-Made Wonders, London: The Reader’s Digest Association Limited, →ISBN, page 97, column 1:

     Alok Chaudhry is one of the 2300 members of the Union of Tiffinbox Suppliers who form a network of relay teams that collect 100 000 lunch-boxes in mid-morning from Bombay’s suburbs and delivers them to offices in the city centre by lunchtime. […] Rajnish, second in the chain, collects his lunch-boxes from them at the first meeting point at 10.20.

   • 2011, John Knight, “[Working with Monkeys] Knowing the Monkeys”, in Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops are Managed for Tourism in Japan (Human-Animal Studies; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267:

     Ishii also shared chikuwa (fish sausage) and boiled egg from his bentō lunch-box with the monkeys (he told me that the monkeys even eat tsukemono pickles and umeboshi [pickled plums]).

   • 2013, Fiona Kidman, chapter 23, in The Infinite Air: A Novel, London: Aardvark Bureau, published 2016, part 2 (Flight: 1934–1937):

     Her lunch-box had been packed with roast chicken drumsticks and sliced mango.

   • 2016, Trisha Merry with Jacquie Buttriss, “A Steal a Day”, in The Cast-Off Kids, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:

     But today, I found one of the other children crying at lunchtime, because her lunch-box had been raided and nearly everything was missing.