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/wˈɪndoʊ bɑks/ Listen

Window box

noun

A long narrow box for growing plants on a windowsill.

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"Window box" Quotes from Famous Books

... we devised a big window box which is suited for home use also; it is just as wide as the window and half as long again as it is wide. But this box does not stand outside on the window sill; if it did, the plants would freeze. One end only rests on the inside window sill where ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... Section Two Hundred and Fifty of Article Eighteen of Chapter Twenty-three in that you did place, keep and maintain upon a certain window sill of the premises now being occupied by you in the City of New York a window box for the cultivation or retention of flowers, shrubs, vines or other articles or things without the same being firmly ...

— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... passed that Chico did not make short flights, to Andrea from Maria, and from her to the old man's shoulder, until, one morning, he greatly amazed them by flying into his own window box. ...

— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard

... that she should be indisposed and my sincere hope that she may soon be restored to her customary health. Did so. Upon finishing the note an impulse to accompany it with a small nosegay culled from my window box came upon me. Obeyed the impulse, note and nosegay being despatched by special messenger to the home ...

— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb