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  this is like how it’s called a chocolate box not a chocolates box, even though they comprise several chocolates… or a shoe box, even though there are two shoes… or a car park in british english, or a color wheel, or a student body… i think when the noun takes adjective form, it usually goes into singular form
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  The designers at Packard, in 1900, are the originators of the "glove compartment" in the first "dash boards" 
  Previous to this, there was a "Gloves Box" that was for the driving gloves and predates cars as Buggies had Drivers outside. 
  So when it went from actually storing Gloves as it's sole purpose. 
  It became a Glove Compartment, that can hold anything, with a kind nod to the origin. 
  The more you know :) >
  
  Well, that's an interesting twist! We should all start calling it a glove compartment, no matter how many gloves we store in there. After all, why should the number of gloves determine the name of the compartment? ;) >
  
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