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[carton 词源字典] - carton: see chart
[carton etymology, carton origin, 英语词源] - carton (n.)
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- 1816, from French carton "pasteboard" (17c.), from Italian cartone "pasteboard," augmentative of Medieval Latin carta "paper" (see card (n.)). Originally the material for making paper boxes; extended 1906 to the boxes themselves. As a verb, from 1921.