Chest (furniture) that women use to store dower items, including linens and baby clothes.
Synonyms
Examples for "hope chest"
Examples for "hope chest"
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She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
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He gave her a cedar hope chest, to hold their future.
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Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest.
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Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest.
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Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest.
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As big as my sister's dowry chest.
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In great expectancy, she lifted the heavy lid of the cedar chest.
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At the back and near the right stands the great cedar chest.
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In a corner of the room is a cedar chest containing hand-woven linen.
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It's put away in the cedar chest in the attic-Marywill know where.
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The bedding's in the cedar chest, and the lamps are filled.
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On 27 minutes everything clicked and some sumptuous passing and movement on the edge of the Glory box resulted in Sergio Cirio beating Ante Covic.
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As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.