Boîte

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) company, business
 * 2) letterbox
 * 3)  gearbox
 * 1)  gearbox
 * 1)  gearbox

Usage notes

 * The official LOD now prescribes the spelling for the plural because the vowel is short (thus analogously to ). However, this is unintuitive here because the digraph  is specifically French and cannot be confused with a long vowel. Accordingly,  is still widely found in otherwise well edited texts.