chocolate-box

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See also: chocolate box

English

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Etymology

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From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.

Adjective

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chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)

  1. (derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
    • 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade:
      He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.
    • 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values:
      The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.
    • 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
      I find it difficult to pick a personal favourite from the two, but Wylam wins on the chocolate-box front, framed by an in-keeping (also Grade 2) footbridge just down the line from it, [...].

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