noun.
A lightweight cylindrical box used to hold small articles of apparel.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A light box made of pasteboard or thin flexible pieces of wood and paper, for holding caps, bonnets, or other light articles of attire: so called because originally made to contain the starched bands commonly worn in the seventeenth century. See band, 3.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.