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Significados de hope chest em inglês

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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 "wedding chest"
Examples for "wedding chest"
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
Uso de hope chest em inglês
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
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
8
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...
16
You have a bottle of whiskey in your hand.' Dermott pointed to the Four Roses on the hope chest.
Think of a number