What does pepperbox mean?
Pepperbox means A pepper shaker..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A pepper shaker..
She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.
Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.
I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]
Its architect, Wilkins, had the misfortune to be chosen to erect our much-abused National Gallery building, with its condemned "pepper-boxes" of cupolas; […]
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Pepperbox means A pepper shaker..
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She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.
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