Wiktionary
n. A box containing items, especially clothing, table linens, towels, bed linens, and quilts, typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of future marriages or married lives.
WordNet
n. chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage [syn: wedding chest]
Wikipedia
A hope chest, also called dowry chest, cedar chest, trousseau chest or glory box is a piece of furniture traditionally used to collect items such as clothing and household linen, by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life.
The term "hope chest" or "cedar chest" is used in the midwest or south of the United States; in the United Kingdom, the term is "bottom drawer"; while "glory box" is used by women in Australia.
Hope chest can refer to:
- Hope chest, a box containing items stored for a future marriage
- Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983, an album by 10,000 Maniacs
- The Hope Chest, a 1918 American film
- HopeChest, an American Christian young women's magazine
- Hopechest, a 1996 album by Stephanie Bentley
- Hope Chest, an American shoegaze / dream pop band from California formed in 1992
Usage examples of "hope chest".
Oskar read and played with the three words as a juggler plays with bottles: faith healer, Old Faithful, faithless hope, hope chest, Cape of Good Hope, hopeless love, Love's Labour's Lost, six love.
Desdemona, weeping, takes off the corset, folds it back up, and returns it to the hope chest.
She jumped up and ran to the swan bed, pulling out the hope chest.
When I came in he was nudging her toward the pecan hope chest, telling her he'd all but promised the other to another customer.
A cedar chest, a hope chest, at the foot of the bed, filled with sweet-smelling linens and net bags of lavender sachet.
And don't you dare start crocheting doilies for Sylvie's hope chest.
Flush with the ground, a hole roughly the size of a hope chest leaked black shadow through whitened limestone.
And then the lies, once having been freed from Pandora's Hope Chest, begin to breed.
She ran for the house, made the phone call, then ran to their bedroom and pulled quilts from the hope chest at the end of the bed.