"pouncet-box" meaning in English

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          "text": "Carrying a pouncet-box was a common custom among the upper classes in the 16th and 17th centuries.",
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          "text": "And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box.",
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          "text": "1866, Septimus Piesse, Pouncet Box and Pomander, entry in Notes and Queries: 3rd Series, Volume 9: January—June 1866, page 392,\nThe pouncet box mentioned by Shakespeare in the Midsummer Night's Dream, I have always considered as a similar article to the pomander worn by \"fashionable people\" in the time of Elizabeth, containing powdered perfumery, such as musk, civet, and various spices."
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          "text": "1894 (1819), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Ginn & Company, page 364,\n\" […] besides what is broken and spoiled among their rude hands, such as my pouncet-box and silver crisping-tongs.\""
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          "text": "1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small Antique Silverware, Bramhall House, page 186,\nMore usually, however, the pouncet box hung from the waist by a black cord, until early in the seventeenth century. To Elizabethans the ceremonial of inhaling the piquant odour from the pouncet box was a social grace."
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