dower chest
noun
a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
Origin of dower chest
1First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use dower chest in a sentence
If there is one piece of furniture above another that is surrounded with a halo of romance, surely it is the dower chest!
Chats on Household Curios | Fred W. BurgessNothing, nothing was untouched, but the big dower-chest into which she had flung her wretched wedding-clothes.
A Rose of a Hundred Leaves | Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrAnd opposite it stood a finely-carved dower-chest with the date 1511 carved upon it.
Miss Merivale's Mistake | Mrs. Henry ClarkeIt and her ebony chairs, her claw-footed tables, her harp and dower chest, had come with her from France.
Old Kaskaskia | Mary Hartwell CatherwoodNo bride of the old country has more pride in her dower chest than the mountain bride in her pile of quilts.
Quilts | Marie D. Webster
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