noun🔗ShareA fancy box, generally with a mirror under the lid, for holding artificial beauty spots, or patches, worn on the face."The museum display featured antique patchboxes, each a tiny, elegant container once used to hold beauty patches and a small mirror for applying them. "appearancestyleculturehistoryartitemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA lidded container fitted to a gun to hold the cloth patches used when shooting round shot."The museum display showed a flintlock rifle with intricately carved patchboxes built into the stock, each designed to hold the small cloths needed to load the weapon. "militaryweaponitemhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
