Plural of bandbox; multiple cylindrical pasteboard boxes used for storing clothing, hats, or collars.
Regular English plural formation of bandbox, created by adding -es (since bandbox ends in a sibilant sound).
In the 1800s, fashionable ladies would receive deliveries of stacked bandboxes filled with new hats and collars — so many were stacked in homes that 'bandbox' became synonymous with receiving shipments of the latest fashion!
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