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knife box
noun
- a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knife box1
First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences
Large and small tray napkins and knife-box cloths, are made in the same manner.
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If she had not behaved as she did Bertie or Eva would have remembered to clean out the knife-box.
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On it stood a tea-caddy of mahogany, a knife-box, and several silver boxes.
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The sideboard, too, is of the seventeenth century, and on this is a knife box of the latter quarter of this century.
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So he borrowed the large kitchen knife-box and went out, and brought it in full of nice real clean mould out of the garden.
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