单词 | pounce box |
释义 | > as lemmaspounce box pounce box n. ΚΠ 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxvi. 127 Some of all these Trades deal in Stationary Ware, which in these Shops consist of Paper, Pens, Ink, Sand, Sand-Boxes, Wafers..Ink Standishes, Pounce-Boxes..and Memorandum Books. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/1 The pounce-boxes of our days have gone retrograde. 1998 A. Fadiman Ex Libris (2000) 75 An eighteenth-century inkstand—complete with..pounce box (to hold the desiccant powder), and wafer box (to hold the paste sealing wafers)—was a monument to the physical act of writing. < as lemmas |
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