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单词 chocolate box
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chocolate boxn.adj.

Brit. /ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət bɒks/, U.S. /ˈtʃɔk(ə)lət ˌbɑks/, /ˈtʃɑk(ə)lət ˌbɑks/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chocolate n., box n.2
Etymology: < chocolate n. + box n.2
A. n.
A box or tin filled with chocolates, stereotypically one decorated in a conventionally pretty or sentimental style; (hence) an artistic style or aesthetic resembling or reminiscent of such decoration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for sweets
dredge-box1525
candy box1799
bonbonnière1818
drageoir1861
chocolate box1865
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
1865 Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 23/1 She has chosen to occupy limited and valuable space with pretty inane groups from the harem, after the fashion of the covers of French chocolate-boxes, or with indifferent semi-Oriental street pictures after the manner of Preziosi.
1869 W. P. Lancaster Ropes of Sand I. vi. 144 I should like to shake her when she tried to put on the expression of a French saint on a chocolate box.
1933 D. Thomas Let. Oct. (1987) 32 The whole poem I should like to see upon the cover of a chocolate box; its flavours would mix well with the taste of coffee-centres and crême de menthe.
1945 W. S. Churchill Let. 3 Sept. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xxiv. 533 These lakeshore subjects run a great risk of degenerating into ‘chocolate box’, even if successfully executed.
1959 Spectator 24 July 102/1 ‘Classical ballet’..in its chocolate-box you will still find a few sexless sylphs and glades.
2011 Church Times 6 May 40/1 I live in a French chalet that could decorate any chocolate box, overlooking Lake Léman.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of a view, picture, artistic style, aesthetic, etc.: resembling or reminiscent of the stereotypical decoration of a chocolate box; pretty in a conventional or sentimental way.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles
plangent1666
dry1695
sticky1753
flat1755
spotty1798
touchy1809
definitive1815
edgy1825
painty1827
scratchy1827
unideal1838
tinglish1855
generalist1858
tinny1877
Christmas-cardy1883
tinty1883
surfacy1887
chocolate box1892
chocolate-boxy1894
Christmas card1895
juicy1897
candy box1898
pastose1901
busy1909
pompier1914
posterish1914
painterly1932
X-ray1940
illusional1942
all-over1948
figurative1960
hard-edge1961
1892 Eclectic Mag. Mar. 419/1 How could I ever have admired that chocolate-box barmaid style of prettiness?
1901 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 3/3 It is odd that a writer whose observation..is so real should..be satisfied with these chocolate-box conventions.
1955 W. S. Graham Let. 23 June in Nightfisherman (1999) 144 I wanted to write about the sea and make it a grey green sea, not a chocolate box sea.
1965 Listener 18 Nov. 795/2 The sequence.., for all its chocolate-box vulgarity, contains sufficient emotional impact [etc.].
2012 Independent 28 Nov. 45/2 This might not be chocolate-box Britain, but this eerier, anarchic vision of rural life is just as traditional, if not more so.

Derivatives

ˈchocolate-ˌboxy adj. (also chocolate-boxey) = sense B.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles
plangent1666
dry1695
sticky1753
flat1755
spotty1798
touchy1809
definitive1815
edgy1825
painty1827
scratchy1827
unideal1838
tinglish1855
generalist1858
tinny1877
Christmas-cardy1883
tinty1883
surfacy1887
chocolate box1892
chocolate-boxy1894
Christmas card1895
juicy1897
candy box1898
pastose1901
busy1909
pompier1914
posterish1914
painterly1932
X-ray1940
illusional1942
all-over1948
figurative1960
hard-edge1961
1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. viii. 114 Christopher will only say that she is chocolate-boxey!
1923 A. Huxley On Margin 198 A fear of becoming sentimental, or ‘chocolate-boxy’.
1959 Observer 2 Aug. 12/7 The harsh unrelieved lighting tends to make every group on which the camera dwells look chocolate-boxy.
2011 Church Times 1 Apr. 28/4 The novel's political significance was perhaps the element most ruthlessly quashed—it looked more chocolate-boxy than its author surely intended.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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