shadow box

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   a shallow rectangular box with a transparent front used to protect and display small items (jewelry, coins, etc.)

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Questions about shadow box

What does shadow box mean?

shadow box means "a shallow rectangular box with a transparent front used to protect and display small items (jewelry, coins, etc.)".

Is shadow box a common word?

shadow 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.