a dog calendar that features the animals in cutesy, chocolate-box poses and robs them of their dignity
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The trains used here aren’t big – sometimes only two carriages — but the gentle trundle through soaring valleys and chocolate-box villages is what captures the heart.—James March, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025 Founded in the heart of the British countryside, the Cotswolds, an area that's famous for its chocolate-box villages and charming country pubs, is the British lifestyle brand Bamford.—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025 The trains used here aren’t big – sometimes only two carriages — but the gentle trundle through soaring valleys and chocolate-box villages is what captures the heart.—James March, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025 Founded in the heart of the British countryside, the Cotswolds, an area that's famous for its chocolate-box villages and charming country pubs, is the British lifestyle brand Bamford.—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Etymology
from the pictures formerly commonly seen on boxes of chocolates
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