hatbox

English

Etymology

From hat +‎ box.

Noun

hatbox (plural hatboxes)

1. A piece of luggage for a hat; a case or box for a hat.
   • 1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A green and pink plaid hat box contains eight more hatboxes that can be stacked like a set of Russian nesting dolls.

   • 2015 November 24, Troy Patterson, “The Winter Hat Trick”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[2]:

     Get a whiff of the models that served our grandfathers well: They now combine the must of a midcentury hatbox with the musk of 21st-­century body spray.

Hypernyms

• bandbox

Translations

a piece of luggage, case, or box for a hat

• Faroese: hattaeskja f
• German: Hutschachtel (de) f
• Greek: καπελιέρα (el) f (kapeliéra)
• Irish: bosca hata m
• Italian: cappelliera f
• Manx: kishtey edd m
• Spanish: sombrerera f