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Bandbox, band box or band-box may refer to:
- The Band Box or bandbox, a nickname for the Baker Bowl and subsequently also for other small baseball fields.
- Bandbox, a novel by Thomas Mallon
- Bandbox Plot, a 1712 attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
- A type of graphical user interface interaction technique that involves drawing a box around one or more objects as a means of selecting them.
- A cylindrical box of cardboard or thin wood for holding light articles of attire. See also hat box
- The Band Box was a euphemistic slang expression (see cylindrical box above) for a notorious brothel frequented by Union soldiers near what is now the Internal Revenue Service building, Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War until approximately 1863.
See also
- Story of the Bandbox, a story by Robert Louis Stevenson
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