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/mˈætʃbˌɑks/ Listen

Matchbox

noun

A box for holding matches.

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Etymology of 'Matchbox'

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"Matchbox" Quotes from Famous Books

... I landed at Tilbury, England, then got into a string of matchbox cars and proceeded to London, arriving there about 10 P.M. I took a room in a hotel near St. Pancras Station for "five and six—fire extra." The room was minus the fire, but the "extra" seemed to keep me warm. That night there was a Zeppelin raid, ...

— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

... gold, a silver matchbox, and a watch, and when these were produced, speaking with the same nonchalance he had retained throughout, ...

— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster

... growing beside the creek, but dropped his matchbox, and Pete came to help him in the search. They found it, but before he could strike a match a man stopped at the end of the bridge and looked back up the street. Foster, imagining he was the fellow who had spoken to him at the hotel, touched Pete, ...

— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss

... Lloyd by parcel post, at great expense, an empty matchbox and empty cigarette-paper book, a bell from a cat's collar, an iron kitchen spoon, and a piece of coal more than half the superficies of this sheet of paper. They are now (appropriately enough) speeding towards the Silly Isles; I ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

Words linked to "Matchbox" : box