English

Alternative forms

• chocolate box
• chocolate-boxy
• chocolate boxy

Adjective

chocolate-box ‎(comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)

1. (derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
   • 1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade

     He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.

   • 1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values

     The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.