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- noun Plural form of
pouncet-box .
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Examples
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Truly, this must it be the angels put in their pouncet-boxes.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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A great state bed, curtained with piled velvet, stood on a sort of _dais_ at the further end; there was a toilet-table adorned with curiously shaped boxes, and coloured Venetian glasses, and filagree pouncet-boxes, and with a small mirror whose frame was inlaid with gold and ivory.
The Chaplet of Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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