| 词汇 | glove compartment glove box |
| 词源 | glove compartment, glove box. Glove box was first used in the mid-19th century for a box designed to hold long surgical gloves without causing contamination when reaching for them. It wasn’t until about 1935 that glove compartment became the name for the dashboard of an automobile used for storing small items, which is also called a glove box today. |
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