ballotinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ballotin (複数形 ballotins)

1. A small, elegant box (usually containing chocolates).
   • 1989 November, Texas Monthly, volume 17, number 11, page 179:

     […] jingle bells chime in with the season's magic in this lovely tapestry ballotin filled with 1 6 oz. of assorted chocolates.

2. (obsolete) An officer in charge of a ballot box.
   • 1656, James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana

     one Secretary or Ballotin with a red Box shall follow the green one: and every Senator shall put one Ball into for one of these six boxes