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pillbox

[pil-boks] / ˈpɪlˌbɒks /


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The women would often wear these extravagant, floral hats or don a more subtle pillbox style.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2025

"I have been coming to Norfolk since I was little and there's been a pillbox on East Runton beach and at Salthouse that I've been fascinated with," said Gemma Clarke, 41, from Coalville, Leicestershire.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2024

He advised people not to attempt to go inside the pillbox "for safety reasons, especially not when the tide's coming in".

From BBC Dec. 8, 2023

Bob Dylan once mockingly sang that a leopard-skin pillbox hat “balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine.”

From Washington Post Sep. 26, 2022

He began to fish in the pocket of his bathrobe, pulling out matches, pen nibs, his blue enamel pillbox.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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