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cassone

[kuh-soh-nee; Italian kahs-saw-ne]

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noun, plural cas·so·ni [kuh-soh-nee; Italian kahs-saw-nee] /kəˈsoʊ ni; Italian kɑsˈsɔ ni/.

a large Italian chest of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually highly ornamented.

Origin of cassone

1880–85; < Italian, equivalent to cass(a) box (see case²) + -one augmentative suffix

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Examples from the Web for cassone

Historical Examples of cassone

Painted probably to adorn the front of a cassone or marriage-chest.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools
Various
The Italian marriage-chests (cassone) were also of a richness which was never attempted in England.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1
Various
The three screens carry four pictures—two long and narrow, evidently panels from a cassone; the others quite small.
A Wanderer in Venice
E.V. Lucas