pyxis.
various types of small box:
Meaning & usage
various types of small box: a small box for storing consecrated hosts, e.g. in a tabernacle or for travel when tending to the sick
various types of small box: a type of small box from Ancient Greece holding small, valuable items (such as jewellery, cosmetics or medicine)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís). Doublet of box, buks (“shotgun”), and bus (“container”).
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