Other forms: snuffboxes
A snuffbox is a small ornamental box for powdered tobacco. A silver snuffbox, open the snuffbox, an antique snuffbox.
They were among the great luxury objects of the eighteenth century, given as diplomatic presents and made by the best goldsmiths. The anatomical snuffbox is the hollow at the base of the thumb, named from where a pinch was placed.
1nounsnuffboxA small ornamental box for powdered tobacco.
“The old gentleman opened his silver snuffbox and took a pinch of tobacco.”
snuffbox is a box.
Snuff plus box, from the powdered tobacco taken by the nose.
From snuff + box.
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