ballotin
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballotin (plural ballotins)
- A small, elegant box (usually containing chocolates).
- 1989 November, Texas Monthly, volume 17, number 11, page 179:
- […] jingle bells chime in with the season's magic in this lovely tapestry ballotin filled with 1 6 oz. of assorted chocolates.
- (obsolete) An officer in charge of a ballot box.
- 1656, James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana:
- one Secretary or Ballotin with a red Box shall follow the green one: and every Senator shall put one Ball into for one of these six boxes
Translations
[edit]ballot box officer
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References
[edit]- “ballotin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ballot (“bundle”), diminutive of balle (“bundle tied together with string”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballotin m (plural ballotins)
- a small, elegant box, usually of cardboard, containing pralines (chocolate)
Further reading
[edit]- “ballotin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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