Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vertical mailing-tube, having a glass front, erected in a hotel or office-building, and passing through all or several floors; a chute for letters.
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Examples
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"The most expensive apartment we looked at had a mail-chute," said my husband, thoughtfully, after a moment of silence.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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We discovered these things by degrees, and gradually I came to feel that my mail-chute was the only real, continuous luxury we had gained with this awful rent.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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But, when Lucille wrote letters, she just stepped out of the suite and dropped them in the mail-chute attached to the elevator.
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And the instant I did that, the girl on duty at the stamp-window would have gone to the mail-chute to get the letter and read the address.
Kindred of the Dust 1918
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Jackson Wylie, Sr., did not really come to until he had reached the street; even then he did not know whether he had come down the elevator or through the mail-chute.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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You couldn't help remembering that I'd been a city girl and imagining that prairie-life was a sort of penance I was undergoing before passing on to the joys of paradise in an apartment-hotel with a mail-chute outside the door and the sound of the Elevated outside the windows.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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