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Clothes and accessories and linens
Answer for the clue "Clothes and accessories and linens ", 9 letters:
trousseau
Alternative clues for the word trousseau
- Tense French artist shows what's in bottom drawer
- Clothing collection and tea picked up by philosopher
- Bride's wardrobe
- Bride's bottom drawer
- Hope-chest come true
- Taiwan's top philosopher accumulated household items for union
- Bride's personal items
- Bride's pride
- Clothes not a single woman will go out in
Word definitions for trousseau in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trousseau \Trous`seau"\ (tr[=oo]`s[=o]"), n. [F., fr. OF. trossel, dim. of trousse a bundle, truss. See Truss .] The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her ...
Usage examples of trousseau.
She received calls but returned them with cards left by Pakie Scally, pressed into service as a footman, in the livery that had been bought out of her lavish trousseau account.
She had never had her own insignificance so painfully impressed upon her as in this Belgravian mansion, where the engagement, the enormous trousseau, the costly wedding presents, were matters of the deepest moment.
Mackenzie quotes a case from Trousseau, in which an individual afflicted with diabetes insipidus passed 32 liters of urine daily and drank enormous quantities of water.
In all cases she was buried out of sight, and the actual prospect of buying a trousseau that would realise the most ecstatic day-dreams might be accepted as a setoff against the doubtful antecedents of a deceased mother--in-law.
She gave her up to me seven years ago, and I have given her an annuity of five hundred ducats, which she will bring to you, with all her diamonds and an extensive trousseau.
Raimberge’s was at the opposite end of the corridor, with a chestful of trousseau, a spinning wheel, and whatever else pertained to a young girl of shabby-genteel birth.
She wants her wardrobe to hear from above by return with cash so as she can buy her Peter Robinson trousseau and cut a dash with Arty, Bert or possibly Charley Chance (who knows?
She moved through the murk towards the sound, encountering curtain after curtain as she went, all gossamer thin, as though the trousseaus of a hundred brides had been hung in this chamber.
Penny and Gillian were dashing about London denuding the better stores of dresses and frillies for their trousseaux, while I scouted around for a house, introduced it to Penny, and then secured it with a cash deposit against the time the lawyers had finished their expensive wrangling over the deeds.
For once the sky was clear, the high Ramtops standing out crisp and white like the brides of the sky (with their trousseaux stuffed with thunderstorms) and the many little streams that bordered or crossed the path flowed sluggishly through strands of meadowsweet and go-fasterroot.