Chinese box

English

Noun

Chinese box (plural Chinese boxes)

  1. One of a set of Chinese boxes.
    • 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:
      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.
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