Chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage.
Sinônimos
Examples for "hope chest"
Examples for "hope chest"
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.
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--