"Chinese box" meaning in All languages combined

See Chinese box on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Chinese boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chinese box (plural Chinese boxes)
  1. One of a set of Chinese boxes.
    Sense id: en-Chinese_box-en-noun-wD-iihs- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:",
          "text": "It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.",
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