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Chinese box
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English
Noun
One of a set of Chinese boxes.
en 2014 w:Terry Pratchett 169 A Slip of the Keyboard It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.