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

At Salon, we’ve revisited sweet salads, icebox cakes, tuna melts, baked spaghetti and the classic holiday cheese ball — all familiar flavors, reimagined just enough to feel new.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

So, obviously, the Director’s office is an icebox.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

The so-called "iceboxes", notorious among migrants, are extremely cold rooms or cubicles in US Border Patrol migrant processing facilities.

From BBC ● May 23, 2021

Refrigerated railroad cars and in-home iceboxes meant that vegetables were now available in winter, and not just turnips.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2016

Most folks still thought a bathroom inside the house was unnecessary, expensive, maybe even unsanitary, though Aunt Pretty sighed a lot when she read about big-city houses with indoor plumbing and wringer washers and iceboxes.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney