Chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage.
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Examples for "hope chest "
Examples for "hope chest "
1 She had a hope chest and sat up sewing late o' nights.
2 He gave her a cedar hope chest , to hold their future.
3 Mayes said no one had ever opened his great-grandmother's hope chest .
4 Even Fiona's, although she refuses to have a real hope chest .
5 Every girl has a right to buy for a hope chest .
1 The bed, the wedding chest , the upright paper man.
2 His is also contemplating painting a cassone, or Italian wedding chest with a scene he proposes to call "Francis the Metropolitan."
3 It 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--
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