chocolate-box

[ chaw-kuh-lit-boks, chok-uh-, chawk-lit-, chok- ]

/ ˈtʃɔ kə lɪtˌbɒks, ˈtʃɒk ə-, ˈtʃɔk lɪt-, ˈtʃɒk- /

adjective

excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties.

Origin of chocolate-box

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby chocolate-box

chock-full, chockstone, choco, chocoholic, chocolate, chocolate-box, chocolate cyst, chocolate milk, chocolate soldier, chocolate tree, chocolatier

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Example sentences from the Web for chocolate-box

Not strictly beautiful, perhaps; but then I don't like the chocolate-box sort of woman.
Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor|William Somerset Maugham
No, mark you, he'd take jolly good care that his sentimentality didn't make him see her as a chocolate-box picture!
The Twilight of the Souls|Louis Couperus
My romance was not in the things of glitter and chocolate-box gaiety, but rather in the dolours and silences of the East.
Nights in London|Thomas Burke
Like that, like that, at any rate, she no longer looked like the picture on a chocolate-box.
The Twilight of the Souls|Louis Couperus

British Dictionary definitions for chocolate-box

chocolate-box

noun

(modifier) informal sentimentally pretty or appealing

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单词	chocolate-box
释义	chocolate-box [ chaw-kuh-lit-boks, chok-uh-, chawk-lit-, chok- ] / ˈtʃɔ kə lɪtˌbɒks, ˈtʃɒk ə-, ˈtʃɔk lɪt-, ˈtʃɒk- / adjective excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties. Origin of chocolate-box First recorded in 1900–05 Words nearby chocolate-box chock-full, chockstone, choco, chocoholic, chocolate, chocolate-box, chocolate cyst, chocolate milk, chocolate soldier, chocolate tree, chocolatier Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for chocolate-box Not strictly beautiful, perhaps; but then I don't like the chocolate-box sort of woman. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor\|William Somerset Maugham No, mark you, he'd take jolly good care that his sentimentality didn't make him see her as a chocolate-box picture! The Twilight of the Souls\|Louis Couperus My romance was not in the things of glitter and chocolate-box gaiety, but rather in the dolours and silences of the East. Nights in London\|Thomas Burke Like that, like that, at any rate, she no longer looked like the picture on a chocolate-box. The Twilight of the Souls\|Louis Couperus British Dictionary definitions for chocolate-box chocolate-box noun (modifier) informal sentimentally pretty or appealing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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