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shoebox

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an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes

a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment)

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The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. Rem Koolhaas

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway. Benjamin McKenzie

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. Jack Johnson

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. Brian Selznick

Well saturday gives what sunday steals, And a child is born on his brother's heels, Come sunday morn the first-born is dead, In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red. Nick Cave

Freeman’s focus – initiated by finding a burnished red shoebox stuffed with papers and secrets – was originally on her father’s mother, born as Sala Glahs in 1910 in Chrzanow, a small town of the Austro-Hungarian empire, not so far from Kraków. Source: Internet

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