pouncet-box

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A box with a perforated lid, used to contain pounce or perfume.
 * 2) * 1866,, Pouncet Box and Pomander, entry in : 3rd Series, Volume 9: January—June 1866, page 392,
 * The pouncet box mentioned by Shakespeare in the Midsummer Night's Dream, I have always considered as a similar article to the pomander worn by "fashionable people" in the time of Elizabeth, containing powdered perfumery, such as musk, civet, and various spices.
 * 1) * 1894 (1819),, , Ginn & Company, page 364,
 * "besides what is broken and spoiled among their rude hands, such as my pouncet-box and silver crisping-tongs."
 * 1) * 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small Antique Silverware, Bramhall House, page 186,
 * More usually, however, the pouncet box hung from the waist by a black cord, until early in the seventeenth century. To Elizabethans the ceremonial of inhaling the piquant odour from the pouncet box was a social grace.
 * 1) * 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small Antique Silverware, Bramhall House, page 186,
 * More usually, however, the pouncet box hung from the waist by a black cord, until early in the seventeenth century. To Elizabethans the ceremonial of inhaling the piquant odour from the pouncet box was a social grace.

Usage notes
The hyphenated spelling dates back at least to Shakespeare and is repeated in numerous old dictionaries that cite him for usage.