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

[Laurence Horn]

There’s also the use of “bandbox” to refer to small baseball fields and/or those whose dimensions make them easy to hit home runs in.  Ebbets Field in Brooklyn was a classic case, but it’s sometimes applied to Boston’s Fenway. Not in OED, AHD, etc.

LH



  

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 7:53 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
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> I was always under the impression that a "band box" was a structure (like a gazebo) from which a band gave concerts.
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> 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
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> _Theater_ magazine, May 1915 page 259 "...what the Washington Square Players are now doing at their little Bandbox Theater on Fifty-seventh Street".
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>    - Jim Landau
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