Meanings (ES + gloss)
pastillero
A small box in which pills are kept.
There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.
fortín
A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.
It was reported that the Germans had established trench works in front of the pillboxes. The enemy was said to have taken refuge from American fire in the pillboxes, later emerging…
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