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Significats de hope chest en anglès

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

Chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage.

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Examples for "dowry chest"
Examples for "dowry chest"
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As big as my sister's dowry chest.
Shift
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
Ús de hope chest en anglès
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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
6
At the foot of the bed was a cedar hope chest.
Think of a number
7
The bulbs are taken to the attic and placed in a large hope chest.
The new yorker
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She was the girl who had never started sewing treasures for a hope chest.
Gingham bride
9
Her mother always used to call it a hope chest.
The skin trade
10
But she had no hope chest to fill.
Gingham bride
11
It was the last of the half dozen towels she had worked for Jessica's hope chest.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
12
I should not tell you this, but I'm going to start a little present for your hope chest.
Gingham bride
13
He distributes the cookies among his superior officers and puts the knit goods in his active-duty hope chest.
The new yorker
14
I was making a wedding ring quilt for my hope chest. Ma left the pan sizzling, pounding closer.
Gingham bride
15
She's collecting stuff for her hope chest and I should think biscuit recipes would be just the thing.
Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
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You have a bottle of whiskey in your hand.' Dermott pointed to the Four Roses on the hope chest.
Think of a number