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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box for perfume.
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Examples
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My father has kindly presented me with the pretty gewgaws a girl loves — a dressing-case, toilet service, scent-box, fan, sunshade, prayer-book, gold chain, cashmere shawl.
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Then after the peel had become dry, the fruit was filled with spices, so as to make a sort of scent-box.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Skippy, the human scent-box is undoubtedly in love.
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915
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The scent-box of memory is opened and exhales its perfumes.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905
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But the Sages “absolve the scent-box and the bottle of musk.”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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“A woman must not go out with an eyed needle, nor with a signet ring, nor with a spiral head-dress, nor with a scent-box, nor with a bottle of musk; and if she go out she is guilty of a sin-offering.”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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My father has kindly presented me with the pretty gewgaws a girl loves -- a dressing-case, toilet service, scent-box, fan, sunshade, prayer-book, gold chain, cashmere shawl.
Letters of Two Brides Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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I said, as I admired the workmanship of this beautiful ornament, which contains a little scent-box at one end.
Letters of Two Brides Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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“How could they come up to what you purchased the last time; that wee basket, made of willow twigs, that scent-box, scooped out of a root of real bamboo, that portable stove fashioned of glutinous clay; these things were, oh, so very nice!
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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"How could they come up to what you purchased the last time; that wee basket, made of willow twigs, that scent-box, scooped out of a root of real bamboo, that portable stove fashioned of glutinous clay; these things were, oh, so very nice!
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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