icebox

Parpart wasn’t the first to do this; in 1913, Fred W. Wolf patented an electric refrigerator that consisted of a refrigeration unit placed on top of an icebox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Miraculously, the line of people that usually snakes down Melrose yearning for a slice of chef Karla Subero Pittol’s passion lime fruit icebox pie is nonexistent today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

And the same, I’ve realized, goes for the icebox dessert.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

They remembered all kinds of things — the jars she kept in the cupboard, the jars she kept in the icebox.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Before electric refrigeration, households relied on iceboxes, which required frequent deliveries of heavy blocks of ice, constant draining of meltwater and careful food planning to avoid spoilage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried down the mountain in iceboxes and then transferred via four-wheel-drive vehicles to refrigerated trucks further down the mountain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

He thinks I’m a crusty old lady muttering about why anyone needs luxuries like iceboxes.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

Instead, he shaded toward realism, but only just, creating soft, flat, crowded compositions of cartoon steaks spilling out of iceboxes and rubbery superheroes with snaking limbs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

The mundane details of life impressed him too — the neatly made milk cartons, the spring-loaded window shades, the electric iceboxes everywhere.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen