Otherwise it defeats the purpose of calling it a glove box. If gloves are not in this box it would be more accurate to describe that volume as a passenger compartment.

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    Console means a type of support in some contexts via Latin consolor “to alleviate, lighten” so I’d bet it comes from there as it probably originated as an armrest