[Ads-l] Metonymy: cartridge-box, ballot-box, jury-box, and band-box

[James A. Landau]

I was always under the impression that a "band box" was a structure (like a gazebo) from which a band gave concerts.

https://books.google.com/books?id=E30eAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259&dq=abolition+bandboxes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixvvmQ1LTaAhVE_IMKHTc4CdkQ6AEIXTAJ#v=onepage&q=abolition%20bandboxes&f=false

_Theater_ magazine, May 1915 page 259 "...what the Washington Square Players are now doing at their little Bandbox Theater on Fifty-seventh Street".

    - Jim Landau

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