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Meanings of dowry chest in anglès

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Chest (furniture) that women use to store dower items, including linens and baby clothes.

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        Examples for "hope chest"
        Examples for "hope chest"
        1
        She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
        The Gay Cockade
        2
        He gave her a cedar hope chest, to hold their future.
        The prince of frogtown
        3
        Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest.
        Shadow men
        4
        Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest.
        Gingham bride
        5
        Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest.
        The new yorker
        1
        In great expectancy, she lifted the heavy lid of the cedar chest.
        American Indian Stories
        2
        At the back and near the right stands the great cedar chest.
        The Southern Cross / A Play in Four Acts
        3
        In a corner of the room is a cedar chest containing hand-woven linen.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 / Little J...
        4
        It's put away in the cedar chest in the attic-Marywill know where.
        A Hoosier Chronicle
        5
        The bedding's in the cedar chest, and the lamps are filled.
        Fanny Herself
        1
        As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.
        Atonement
        1
        On 27 minutes everything clicked and some sumptuous passing and movement on the edge of the Glory box resulted in Sergio Cirio beating Ante Covic.
        The Guardian
        Usage of dowry chest in anglès
        1
        As big as my sister's dowry chest.
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