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snuffbox
/ ˈsnʌfˌbɒks /
noun
- a container, often of elaborate ornamental design, for holding small quantities of snuff
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The first thing I noticed was a gold snuffbox, set with portraits of the king, the queen, and their two children.
I took from my pocket the gold snuffbox with the portraits on the lid, and placed my key carefully therein.
Books lay upon the table; one of them open, with a horn snuffbox keeping down the leaf.
The trader, his head held very high, drew out a large and bedizened snuffbox, and took snuff with ostentation.
He laughed again, and, dismissing the subject with airiness somewhat exaggerated, drew out his huge gilt snuffbox.
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