hatbox

English

Etymology

From hat +‎ box.

Noun

hatbox (plural hatboxes)

  1. 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], archived from the original on 14 December 2024:
      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], archived from the original on 26 February 2019:
      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.

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