Definition of "workboxes" [workboxes]

• Plural form of workbox. (noun)

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• "They went and sat down with their workboxes by the waterside under the arbour."
• "For ladies got smoking caps, and cigar-cases; while gentlemen received workboxes, thimbles, and tatting-needles."
• "These sons sent her the money upon which she lived and out of which she made her little charities, and they wrote her fine brave letters, and every year they came home to see her, bearing beautiful presents from foreign lands, ivory toys and shining silks (which she always gave to some bride) and workboxes of sweet-scented wood richly carved -- to show how much they loved her."