trousseau
noun
an outfit of clothing, household linen, etc., for a bride.
trousseaus
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pluralof trousseau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Travel abroad and foreign study are just as necessary for an American scholar as foreign buying is for an American dealer in trousseaus.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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 Sewell Ford
