boîte

[ bwaht; French bwat ]

noun,plural boîtes [bwahts; French bwat]. /bwɑts; French bwat/.
  1. a nightclub; cabaret.

Origin of boîte

1
<French: box; Old French boiste<Vulgar Latin *buxita, for Late Latin buxida, formation based on Latin pyxis box (see pyx), stem pyxid-, conflated with buxusbox3

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How to use boîte in a sentence

  • Tous ces cadeaux évoquaient pour Boum, ses cadeaux à lui que Line rangeait jadis dans la boîte.

    Histoires grises | E. Edouard Tavernier
  • If this never-to-be-sufficiently-anathematized serpent which comes and goes like the boîte à surprise—the how do you call him?

    Pledged to the Dead | Seabury Quinn