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"
1She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
2He gave her a cedar hope chest, to hold their future.
3Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest.
4Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest.
5Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest.
1In great expectancy, she lifted the heavy lid of the cedar chest.
2At the back and near the right stands the great cedar chest.
3In a corner of the room is a cedar chest containing hand-woven linen.
4It's put away in the cedar chest in the attic-Marywill know where.
5The bedding's in the cedar chest, and the lamps are filled.
1As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.
1On 27 minutes everything clicked and some sumptuous passing and movement on the edge of the Glory box resulted in Sergio Cirio beating Ante Covic.
1As big as my sister's dowry chest.