wedding chest

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noun

an ornamented chest for a trousseau.

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Origin of wedding chest

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby wedding chest

Weddell Sea, wedding, wedding anniversary, wedding breakfast, wedding cake, wedding chest, wedding day, wedding march, wedding planner, wedding ring, Wedekind

How to use wedding chest in a sentence

They carried poor Tatyana off along with her wedding chest—the chest fished up with my grapnel.
The Dark Star|Robert W. Chambers
Then she spoke to her daughter: Dodo, when we go to Paris you can fill that old wedding chest with a trooso.
Polly and Her Friends Abroad|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
That day, Polly secured a Gothic wedding-chest with ornamented and beautifully carved sides and lid.
Polly and Her Friends Abroad|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
That hug means more to me than a 143 wedding-chest, laughed Dodo, pink with pleasure.
Polly and Her Friends Abroad|Lillian Elizabeth Roy

I was asked repeatedly by my German lady friends, Where is your wedding chest of linen?
The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883|The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle