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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The bed, the wedding chest, the upright paper man.
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His is also contemplating painting a cassone, or Italian wedding chest with a scene he proposes to call "Francis the Metropolitan."
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It will be sad, won't it, if the royal princesses have to be launched without wedding chests and dowries?
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"Perhaps we should starting sewing things for your wedding chest soon?"
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"I will do odd jobs-a wedding chest, bronze groups--
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She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
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He gave her a cedar hope chest, to hold their future.
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Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest.
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Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest.
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Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest.
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At the foot of the bed was a cedar hope chest.
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The bulbs are taken to the attic and placed in a large hope chest.
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She was the girl who had never started sewing treasures for a hope chest.
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Her mother always used to call it a hope chest.
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But she had no hope chest to fill.
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It was the last of the half dozen towels she had worked for Jessica's hope chest.
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I should not tell you this, but I'm going to start a little present for your hope chest.
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He distributes the cookies among his superior officers and puts the knit goods in his active-duty hope chest.
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I was making a wedding ring quilt for my hope chest. Ma left the pan sizzling, pounding closer.
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She's collecting stuff for her hope chest and I should think biscuit recipes would be just the thing.
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You have a bottle of whiskey in your hand.' Dermott pointed to the Four Roses on the hope chest.