Chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage.
1The bed, the wedding chest, the upright paper man.
2His is also contemplating painting a cassone, or Italian wedding chest with a scene he proposes to call "Francis the Metropolitan."
3It will be sad, won't it, if the royal princesses have to be launched without wedding chests and dowries?
4"Perhaps we should starting sewing things for your wedding chest soon?"
5"I will do odd jobs-a wedding chest, bronze groups--