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Meanings of icebox in English

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Non-mechanical household appliance for cooling foodstuffs.

Portuguese
geladeira
Catalan
frigorífic

White goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures.

geladeira
Usage of icebox in English
1
No cold cash in the Nugent icebox, however, so I moved on.
The burglar who traded ted williams
2
She opened a bottle of beer which she found in the icebox.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
3
When developing our master recipe for icebox cookies, we had several goals.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
4
Alex purchased a new bed, a used stove and an old icebox.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
5
I absent-mindedly watched Darry as he searched the icebox for chocolate cake.
The Outsiders
6
Open you a can of peas, and they's bread in the icebox.
A Confederacy of Dunces
7
Mrs. Kobayashi reached into the icebox for a package of yakisoba noodles.
The favorites: a novel
8
She could hear the icebox door opening and closing in the kitchen.
The favorites: a novel
9
There was a sink, a small icebox and a two-burner gas stove.
Big city girl
10
I went over to the alcove with the stove, sink, and icebox.
Summer knight
11
She put the flowers in the icebox, and introduced Bert and Wally.
Mildred Pierce
12
There's a bottle of Lancers in the icebox behind the pineapple chunks.
Salem’s Lot
13
I knew that van-Brookshad used it to deliver our icebox to us.
We are all welcome here
14
A small alcove held a sink, an icebox, and a pantry for food.
Death masks
15
Because an hour from now this bus is going to be an icebox.
61 hours
16
He met his returning host, and together they went to raid the icebox.
The new yorker
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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