dower chest


noun
  1. a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.

Origin of dower chest

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby dower chest

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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. Burgess
  • Nothing, 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 Barr
  • And opposite it stood a finely-carved dower-chest with the date 1511 carved upon it.

    Miss Merivale's Mistake | Mrs. Henry Clarke
  • It and her ebony chairs, her claw-footed tables, her harp and dower chest, had come with her from France.

    Old Kaskaskia | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • No 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