Definition of "bandbox"

There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.

1836, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country, page 6

On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 208