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Definition of "writing-box" [writing-box]

  • A small box containing a set of the materials used in Chinese or Japanese writing. See writing-set, 2. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "writing-box" in a sentence
  • "[While talking, she opens all the letters on the table, rummages the portfolio and writing-box, looks at cards on mantelpiece, work in work-basket, tries tea-box, and shows the greatest activity and curiosity.]"
  • "A red blanket was laid in the middle of the floor, with a lacquer writing-box upon it."
  • "Highland claymores, clustered round a target over the Canterbury people, nor a writing-box of carved wood, lined with crimson velvet, and furnished with silver plate of right venerable aspect, which looked as if it might have been the implement of old Chaucer himself, but which from the arms on the lid must have belonged to some Indian prince of the days of Leo the Magnificent at the furthest."