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bandbox (iou) and Mussulman (iou)


bandbox (iou)



bandbox noun & adjective. M17.
[from BAND noun2 + BOX noun2.]
A. noun. A lightweight paper-covered box for millinery (orig. for neckbands). M17.
look as if one came out of a bandbox & vars., look extremely smart.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Resembling a bandbox; providing little space; fragile, flimsy; conspicuously neat and smart. L18.
N. Shute It had come through the Grand Prix unscratched, in bandbox condition.
band'boxical adjective resembling a bandbox, esp. in providing little space L18.
bandboxy adjective = BANDBOX adjective M19.

Mussulman (iou)



Mussulman noun & adjective. L16.
[Persian musulman (adjective) formed as MUSLIM. In sense A.2 from German Muselmann.]
A. noun. Pl. -mans, -men.
1. A Muslim. arch. L16.
2. Hist. Under the Third Reich, an inhabitant of a concentration camp or extermination camp exhausted to the point of fatalism and loss of initiative. M20.
B. adjective. Muslim. arch. L17.
Mussulmanic adjective (arch.) Muslim E19.
Mussulmanism noun (now rare) Islam M18.
Mussulwoman noun (joc., now rare) a female Muslim M17.