Definitions

1. noun

A box or chest with a movable lid, especially one that can be opened by a mechanism that can only be reversed by turning it in the opposite direction.

“The archaeologists discovered a mysterious pandore in the ancient temple.”

2. noun

In French literature, the box given to the princess in the fairy tale ‘Pandora’s Box’ by Jean-François Regnard and others, which is said to have been inspired by ancient Greek mythology.

“The story of the pandore in the 18th-century novel is loosely based on the myth of Pandora’s Box.”