window box
a box for growing plants, placed at or in a window.
a hollow space in a window frame for a sash weight.
Origin of window box
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How to use window box in a sentence
I invest in the plants that are told me to be best adapted to window-box culture.
Amateur Gardencraft | Eben E. RexfordPatsy stamped slowly up the two flights, and rummaged in a very mussy window-box for a silk waist.
Smith College Stories | Josephine Dodge DaskamUpon finishing the note an impulse to accompany it with a small nosegay culled from my window box came upon me.
Fibble, D. D. | Irvin Shrewsbury CobbA window-box of narcissus in full bloom breathed a perfume, as deadening as the juice of poppies, on the air.
The Transgression of Andrew Vane | Guy Wetmore CarrylIt was the window-box of a factory lad in one of the great northern manufacturing towns.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll
British Dictionary definitions for window box
a long narrow box, placed on or outside a windowsill, in which plants are grown
either of a pair of vertical boxes, attached to the sides of a sash window frame, that enclose a sash cord and counterbalancing weight
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