bandboxy, a.
(ˈbændbɒksɪ)
[f. bandbox + -y1.]
Resembling a bandbox in shape, the fragility of its structure, or its restricted accommodation. (Cf. bandboxical a.)
| 1855 B. Taylor Pictures of Palestine xxxvi. 428 Those bandboxy sombreros which I at first thought so ungainly. 1891 Cornh. Mag. Feb. 160 Houses,..light and small and bandboxy. 1896 C. Allen Papier Mâché 80 Sheds, and bandboxy houses all tilted up on stumps. |
b. Extremely neat. U.S.
| 1870 L. M. Alcott Old-Fash. Girl xii. 195 The dance and the race had taken the ‘band-boxy’ air out of Tom's elegant array. |