chocolate-box

See also: chocolate box

English

From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.

chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)

(derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
- 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade
  He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.
- 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values
  The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.

单词	chocolate-box
释义	chocolate-box See also: chocolate box English Alternative forms chocolate box chocolate-boxy chocolate boxy Etymology From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates. Adjective chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box) (derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness. 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted. 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.
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