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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

The cliff East Runton's pillbox once perched on collapsed years ago, as a result of coastal erosion.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

You see how Julie methodically, and with a hint of odd urgency, unpacks her luggage, and how Rosalind daintily removes a tablet from a pillbox.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

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

A woman in a pillbox hat held a tray of bubbling drinks.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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