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  • noun Alternative spelling of loose box.

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Examples

  • Henry sung out the family battle cry, and opened the door to the loosebox.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

  • Henry sung out the family battle cry, and opened the door to the loosebox.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

  • THE MALE BRUTES: _ (Exhaling sulphur of rut and dung and ramping in their loosebox, faintly roaring, their drugged heads swaying to and fro) _

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • In the stables behind the house she who had carried him on his ride, having rummaged out her last grains of corn, lifted her nose and poked it through the bars of her loosebox to see what he was doing who had not carried her master that sweltering afternoon, and seeing that he was awake, she snorted lightly, to tell him there was thunder in the air.

    The Country House John Galsworthy 1900

  • Harbinger was aware in his every nerve of the sweetish, slightly acrid, husky odour of the loosebox, mingling with the scent of

    The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900

  • In the stables behind the house she who had carried him on his ride, having rummaged out her last grains of corn, lifted her nose and poked it through the bars of her loosebox to see what he was doing who had not carried her master that sweltering afternoon, and seeing that he was awake, she snorted lightly, to tell him there was thunder in the air.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Harbinger was aware in his every nerve of the sweetish, slightly acrid, husky odour of the loosebox, mingling with the scent of

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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