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kə adjective
excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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| chocolate-box | |
| —n | |
| informal (modifier) sentimentally pretty or appealing | |
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