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Definition: Balaam basket or box
Balaam
\Ba"laam\, n.
A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out
a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's
ass speaking. --Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant]
[1913 Webster]
Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected
articles. --Blackw. Mag.
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