What does pillar box mean?

pillar box

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

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British usage

"We were over the border here, into Northern Ireland, and the post office had a very English atmosphere. It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green one."

pillar boxes (plural)

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