Definition of snuffbox
: a small box for holding snuff usually carried about the person
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During every lesson, the prized pupil steals something from Miss Nightingale’s home: a snuffbox, a porcelain swan, a scarf.
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Few museum visitors have ever handled a marble bust or a gilded snuffbox, but everyone wears clothes.
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In the 19th century, European nations used ivory for billiard balls, piano keys, buttons, snuffboxes and false teeth.
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First Known Use of snuffbox
circa 1673
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