Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small box used, especially in the eighteenth century, to contain the black patches which were to be applied to the skin.
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Examples
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Octagon barrel, half stock, small brass patch-box, brass and German silver mountings.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Big and extremely ornate brass patch-box, brass plate on under side of stock, running from trigger-guard to lower ramrod-thimble, original striped ramrod.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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On the flounced dressing-table, with its antique glass and a diminutive patch-box, now the receptacle of Lubin's powder, a sprig of the lovely Rose The was exhaling a faint, far-away century perfume.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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Small round patch-box, and German silver figure of spread eagle inset in cheek piece.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Kentucky style of rifle, except for back-action lock and small oval patch-box.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Curley maple stock and brass mountings, including long brass patch-box.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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"I caught it just in time, dear duchesse," she cried, as she stood quite still, replacing it with a fresh one picked from her patch-box, as the others passed her.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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He wou'd have condemn'd us to hear more, and I believe worse than the former; if an attendant of Tryphœna, had not disturb'd him: who taking Gito aside, dress'd him up in her mistresses tower; and to restore him perfectly to his former figure, drawing false eye-brows out of her patch-box, placed 'em so exactly, Nature might have mistaken 'em for her own work.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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With Lawrence primer magazine and patch-box in stock.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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She turned aside to examine an enamelled patch-box by Van Blarenberghe which the court jeweller had newly received from Paris.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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