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letter box

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
letter box

▶noun

1 Brit. a slot in a door through which mail is delivered.

2 (letterbox) a format for presenting widescreen films on a standard television screen, in which the image fills the width but not the height of the screen.

▶verb (letterbox) record on to video in letterbox format.

'letter box' also found in these Oxford entries:

dead letter box - drop

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