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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
letterbox
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
post sth through sb's door/letterbox
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It's when the dreaded insurance renewal drops through the letterbox.
▪ Lancre people didn't bother much with letterboxes.
▪ So he poked his nose through the letterbox.
▪ The letterbox clashed and no letters came.
▪ The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox.
▪ The rattle of the letterbox told her that the postman had just delivered the mail.
▪ They had velvet flaps over them like letterboxes.
▪ Through the letterbox, they saw her lying in the hall, covered in blood.
Wiktionary
letterbox
  1. (context film English) Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area. alt. (context film English) Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area. n. 1 A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose. 2 A delivery point for mail, a box, compartment or slot for this purpose. v

  2. (context film English) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.

Usage examples of "letterbox".

The three-bedroomed cottage, which had electricity and a view out across open country to Letterbox and Fingerpost Fields, Yewtree Coppice and Stone Redding, lay on the outskirts of Much Marcle at a bend on the Dymock road, and it was here, at the age of barely twenty, that she bore her fourth child, and her first daughter, whom she called Little Daisy.

They were pretty hands, small and finely shaped, with pale pink nails--her only beauty, her brother Charles had generously conceded, pointing out with brutal frankness that with a turned-up nose like hers, and a mouth like a letterbox and carroty hair to boot, she was no picture.

Bruce watched the rural delivery agent stop at his letterbox from the hill above the house and decided that it was time for morning smoko.