blanket chest

American  

noun

Furniture.

1. a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.

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Example Sentences

Miss Love was sitting on the blanket chest that Granny’s angels had come out of.

From Literature

“Last night I was changing the bed and my boyfriend had hid my presents for Christmas in the blanket chest. I am grateful but it's just the usual c--- basically,” Poppflorrie begins in a post that has since sparked nearly 150 comments.

From Fox News

There were some treasures: an old suitcase filled with Masonic regalia that seemed to be from the early 1900s, an empty blanket chest that seemed to be from the early 1800s, a weathered Bible, an old hurricane lamp.

From Washington Post

Visitors will see a blanket chest and glove box she made, along with her tools and her ledger, which holds the tallies of her income and expenses and shows she made a donation to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

From New York Times

I inherited a lovely wooden blanket chest from my grandparents, but I can only stack things on top of it because of the strong mothball smell inside.

From Washington Post