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With a menu spanning oysters, chicken chasseur, turbot with green sauce and much else besides, the offering was so extravagant that part of a baggage car had to be repurposed to make space for an extra icebox containing food and alcohol.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
The heat index nearly got up to 110°F the other day, so the South is still in its icebox cake and no-bake pie era—unless there's hot banana pudding, which is a 365-day-a-year treat.
—Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
The crisper drawer of your refrigerator, or any icebox location far away from odorous foods, is the best locale.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2024
Some evenings my father would return home with a nose like Rudolph’s, near-frostbitten from hours filling sausage casings in a subzero icebox.
—Gabriel H. Sanchez, New York Times, 11 June 2024
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First Known Use
1792, in the meaning defined above
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“Icebox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icebox. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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icebox
noun
ice·box
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