show box
English
Noun
show box (plural show boxes)
- (archaic) A box containing some object of curiosity carried round as a show.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for show box in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)