pillar box

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   a red pillar-shaped letter box

   Broaderpostbox

   United Kingdom

Questions about pillar box

What does pillar box mean?

pillar box means "a red pillar-shaped letter box".

Is pillar box a common word?

pillar box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.