"lunch-box" meaning in All languages combined

See lunch-box on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: lunch-boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lunch-box (plural lunch-boxes)
  1. Alternative form of lunchbox. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lunchbox
    Sense id: en-lunch-box-en-noun-NXnzOOU2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987, Guide to Places of the World: A Geographical Dictionary of Countries, Cities, Natural and Man-Made Wonders, London: The Reader’s Digest Association Limited, →ISBN, page 97, column 1:",
          "text": "Alok Chaudhry is one of the 2300 members of the Union of Tiffinbox Suppliers who form a network of relay teams that collect 100 000 lunch-boxes in mid-morning from Bombay’s suburbs and delivers them to offices in the city centre by lunchtime. […] Rajnish, second in the chain, collects his lunch-boxes from them at the first meeting point at 10.20.",
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          "ref": "2011, John Knight, “[Working with Monkeys] Knowing the Monkeys”, in Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops are Managed for Tourism in Japan (Human-Animal Studies; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "Ishii also shared chikuwa (fish sausage) and boiled egg from his bentō lunch-box with the monkeys (he told me that the monkeys even eat tsukemono pickles and umeboshi [pickled plums]).",
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          "ref": "2013, Fiona Kidman, chapter 23, in The Infinite Air: A Novel, London: Aardvark Bureau, published 2016, part 2 (Flight: 1934–1937):",
          "text": "Her lunch-box had been packed with roast chicken drumsticks and sliced mango.",
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          "ref": "2016, Trisha Merry with Jacquie Buttriss, “A Steal a Day”, in The Cast-Off Kids, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:",
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