cassone
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of cassone
1880–85; < Italian, equivalent to cass ( a ) box ( see case 2) + -one augmentative suffix
Example Sentences
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The second piece is a panoramic picture of a procession in Ancient Rome that once was a panel of a cassone, an expensive chest for clothes and domestic items.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2015
There are Italian cassone, papal chairs, a chemin�e of Francis the First.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is possible he was alluding to these very cassone panels.
From Giorgione by Cook, Herbert
There are the thousand francs safe to hand in the cassone, and what, pray, is it we miss?
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
The Florentine cassone is ornamented with gilded, low reliefs in “pastille.”
From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Breck, Joseph
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