pillar box

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(old-fashioned, BrE) a tall red metal box in the street, used for putting letters in which are being sent by post compareLETTERBOX, POSTBOX

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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pillar boxEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary pillar boxEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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pillar box