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.
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.
6At the foot of the bed was a cedar hope chest.
7The bulbs are taken to the attic and placed in a large hope chest.
8She was the girl who had never started sewing treasures for a hope chest.
9Her mother always used to call it a hope chest.
10But she had no hope chest to fill.
11It was the last of the half dozen towels she had worked for Jessica's hope chest.
12I should not tell you this, but I'm going to start a little present for your hope chest.
13He distributes the cookies among his superior officers and puts the knit goods in his active-duty hope chest.
14I was making a wedding ring quilt for my hope chest. Ma left the pan sizzling, pounding closer.
15She's collecting stuff for her hope chest and I should think biscuit recipes would be just the thing.
16You have a bottle of whiskey in your hand.' Dermott pointed to the Four Roses on the hope chest.