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Meanings of wedding chest in English

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

        Synonyms
        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
        Usage of wedding chest in English
        1
        The bed, the wedding chest, the upright paper man.
        Lost in translation
        2
        His is also contemplating painting a cassone, or Italian wedding chest with a scene he proposes to call "Francis the Metropolitan."
        The new yorker
        3
        It will be sad, won't it, if the royal princesses have to be launched without wedding chests and dowries?
        Kit of Greenacre Farm
        4
        "Perhaps we should starting sewing things for your wedding chest soon?"
        Cruel Beauty
        5
        "I will do odd jobs-a wedding chest, bronze groups--
        Poor Relations