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Chinese box may refer to different topics:
- Chinese boxes, may refer to nested ornamental boxes; this usage is frequently as a metaphor for many layers of encapsulation, similar to Matryoshka dolls or the layers of an onion
- Chinese box is a common name for the plant Murraya paniculata (syn. Murraya exotica)
- Chinese Box, a 1997 Trimark film by Wayne Wang
- "Chinese Box", an episode of the TV series Numb3rs
Usage examples of "chinese box".
When I finally strolled into our sitting-room just before one o'clock, I was surprised to see Poirot, leaning back in an armchair, the Chinese box open beside him, calmly reading the letter he had taken from it.
The more seriously considered medieval concept, however, was that of the ancient Greeks, according to whom the earth was not flat, but a solid stationary sphere in the center of a kind of Chinese box of seven transparent revolving spheres, in each of which there was a visible planet: the moon, Mercury, Venus, and the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, the same seven after which our days of the week are named.
A Chinese box within a box within a box within a great fog of darkness.
To others he was an enigma, a conundrum as complex as a Chinese box, a half-faced Sphinx.
Why had Paul Redford told her about the Chinese box and the illegals?
It took nearly an hour to get into his room: he is very high in the Whitehall 9 Echelon and his room is behind what amounts to a series of distorting mirrors constructed on the principle of the Chinese Box, the idea being that halfway through the system you give up and ask for the street.
It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads.