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

I make Banana Cake and have it covered and ready in the icebox for a week when I have time to squeeze fresh pink grapefruit juice for both breakfast and sunset cocktails.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

There was one small icebox that held milk, butter, eggs and cold cuts in plastic packaging.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

I knew eggs were kept in cool places, so I looked in iceboxes and basements.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli