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  • noun Plural form of pepperbox.

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Examples

  • The angles of this tower were each decorated with a turret, whimsically various in form and in size, and, therefore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are employed for the same purpose.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepperboxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols.

    Chapter 4, Who Has Won to Mastership 1903

  • Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepperboxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols.

    Chapter 4 1903

  • What would be thought of a book-collector who took to standing inkstands or pepperboxes on the tops of his tallest volumes by way of adornment?

    The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884

  • At the corner there are little round towers, like pepperboxes, with sharp peaks.

    The Gold Of Fairnilee Andrew Lang 1878

  • The angles of this tower were each decorated with a turret, whimsically various in form and in size, and, therefore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are employed for the same purpose.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

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