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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

He remembered that Laine wanted him to take his anti-anxiety medications when he could feel himself getting upset, so he unpacked all his belongings to search for his pillbox, found nothing, and repacked everything again.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

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

Instead of doing homework, they played war in the pillbox.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli




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