- chocolate-box
- adjective Etymology: from the pictures formerly commonly seen on boxes of chocolates Date: 1901 superficially pretty or sentimental
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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chocolate box — adj [only before noun] BrE informal a chocolate box place looks pretty, but in a way that is false because it seems too perfect ▪ He had grown tired of the chocolate box views … Dictionary of contemporary English
chocolate-box — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a view or picture) pretty in a trite, conventional way … English terms dictionary
chocolate-box — ˈ ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective of a painting : superficially pretty or sentimental his fiancée wanted him to paint her, and always in a chocolate box pose L.S.Gannett * * * /chaw keuh lit boks , chok euh , chawk lit , chok /, adj. excessively… … Useful english dictionary
chocolate-box — also chocolate box ADJ GRADED: ADJ n Chocolate box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way. [BRIT] ...a village of chocolate box timbered houses … English dictionary
chocolate box — a chocolate box place or thing is very attractive in a way that does not seem real. We drove through a series of chocolate box villages on our way down to Brighton. (always before noun) … New idioms dictionary
chocolate-box — /chaw keuh lit boks , chok euh , chawk lit , chok /, adj. excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate box paintings of Victorian garden parties. [1900 05] *… … Universalium
chocolate-box — adjective Having a twee picturesqueness. He painted a chocolate box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted … Wiktionary
chocolate box — see chocolate box … English dictionary
chocolate box — adjective (only before noun) BrE informal very pretty, but in a way that seems false or artificial: a chocolate box village … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
chocolate-box — UK / US adjective [only before noun] British very attractive in a way that seems artificial and not very interesting a chocolate box cottage … English dictionary
Chocolate box art — On the Terrace, Renoir – a work that could be described chocolate box Chocolate box art originally referred literally to decorations on chocolate boxes. Over the years the terminology has developed and is now applied broadly as a descriptive, but … Wikipedia
