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  • noun Plural form of icebox.

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Examples

  • The United States Government through its agencies will provide for the storage, at the sole risk of the owner, of the more substantial household items, such as iceboxes, washing machines, pianos and other heavy furniture.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows PoetinEden 2010

  • The United States Government through its agencies will provide for the storage, at the sole risk of the owner, of the more substantial household items, such as iceboxes, washing machines, pianos and other heavy furniture.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • Perhaps surprisingly, the working classes continued to purchase their radios and electric iceboxes.

    Home Economics 2009

  • Perhaps surprisingly, the working classes continued to purchase their radios and electric iceboxes.

    Home Economics 2009

  • Perhaps surprisingly, the working classes continued to purchase their radios and electric iceboxes.

    Home Economics 2009

  • Sam entered a world of iceboxes, horse-drawn buggies and, commonly, outhouses.

    Wonkbook: Washington reacts to the budget Ezra Klein 2011

  • Back in the day when people used iceboxes to keep food cold, the iceman was a constant visitor in everyone's home, but once refrigerators became affordable, the iceman went the way of the Dodo bird.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Casey 2010

  • Food turned rancid in leaky, moldy wooden iceboxes but was often eaten anyway.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • Because the microphones picked up the sound of the gears grinding in the cameras, the cameras had to be placed in iceboxes—small, airless rooms with thick plate glass windows through which the movie was photographed, thus reducing superb lenses to mediocre ones.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Back in the day when people used iceboxes to keep food cold, the iceman was a constant visitor in everyone's home, but once refrigerators became affordable, the iceman went the way of the Dodo bird.

    To E-book or not E-book? Shirley Damsgaard 2010

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