Example Sentences

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There, he and his son began collecting the hand-embroidered silk and cotton tapestries, traditionally made throughout Central Asia by brides and their mothers for trousseaus.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2019

“They spent years on their trousseaus, and the emphasis was on finesse.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

The London County Council revealed a gift from recent Visitor Marshal Tito: $2,800 to be spent on trousseaus for deserving London war orphans.

From Time Magazine Archive

And say, you should have heard them talkin’ over the kind of trousseaus that would best help a girl to forget she ever came from Dobie.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell

Why, you see, last year I was dipt a little to the fishmonger, and wrote a matrimonial letter home hinting at trousseaus and other expenses, but mentioning no names.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert