Meanings
nounChinese box (plural Chinese boxes)
plural Chinese boxes
- One of a set of Chinese boxes.
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.
2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169
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Chinese box. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinese%20box
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