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breadbox
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Word definitions for breadbox in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a container used to keep bread or cake in [syn: bread-bin ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I had not yet driven the new Isuzu breadbox .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A breadbox (chiefly American) or a bread bin (chiefly British) is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh. They were a more common household kitchen item until bread started being made commercially with food preservatives ...
Usage examples of breadbox.
From the library he made his way, over plank bridgelets and fern-choked gullies and down long flights of decaying wooden steps, to the plain little house called the Breadbox, where Q'iin the Herbmistress was candying lemon peel in the glass porch overlooking the sun-salted slope of the herb garden.
So he turned his steps downward, edging back through the cellars of the Breadbox and the Assembly Hall, through the hypocaust, and so to a downshaft from the cellar of the Island of Butterflies that had escaped Bentick's notice.
Tom dished up leftover lamb stew that, for once, Antryg was almost too exhausted to eat while Pothatch slipped out to puff his way up the hill to the Breadbox to beg more dream herbs from Q'iin.
He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.
His fingers caressed the smooth leather of the binding as he took it back and slipped it under the breadbox.
Also, she said, there was a coffee cake in the breadbox if he fancied something sweet.
There was a warming cabinet in Nate's apartment that looked like a breadbox made out of a giant armadillo shell.
We arrive at the Hurley homestead, a huge breadbox with a white picket fence, a kidney in the back yard for swimming, and a two-car garage.