"bentō box" meaning in All languages combined

See bentō box on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: bentō boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bentō box (plural bentō boxes)
  1. Alternative form of bento box. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bento box
    Sense id: en-bentō_box-en-noun-KB290Lox Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2018, Eiko Maruko Siniawer, “Living the Good Life?”, in Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, part III (Abundant Dualities: Wealth and Its Discontents in the 1980s and Beyond), page 201:",
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