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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trousseau

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 by her family.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trousseau

"a bride's clothing, etc., brought from her former home," 1817, from French trousseau, originally "a bundle," diminutive of Old French trousse "bundle" (see truss (n.)). Italicized as foreign at first, nativized by 1833. The Old French word was borrowed into Middle English early 13c. as "a bundle of keys," but it fell from use.

Wiktionary
trousseau

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A bundle. 2 The clothes and linen etc. that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.

WordNet
trousseau
  1. n. the personal outfit of a bride; clothes and accessories and linens

  2. [also: trousseaux (pl)]

Wikipedia
Trousseau (grape)

Trousseau or Trousseau Noir, also known as Bastardo, is an old variety of red wine grape originating in eastern France. It is grown in small amounts in many parts of Western Europe; the largest plantations are today found in Portugal, where most famously it is used in port wine. It makes deep cherry red wines with high alcohol and high, sour candy acidity, and flavours of red berry fruits, often complemented - depending on production - by a jerky nose and an organic, mossy minerality.

Trousseau

Trousseau may refer to:

  • A dowry
  • The outfit of a bride, including the wedding dress or similar clothing
  • A hope chest, glory box or its contents
  • Trousseau (grape), a wine grape also known as Bastardo.
  • A white mutation of the Trousseau grape, known as Trousseau Gris.
  • Armand Trousseau (1801–67), an eminent French internist
  • Georges Phillipe Trousseau (1833–1894), French physician and royal doctor of Hawaii
  • Trousseau syndrome, a migratory thrombophlebitis associated with carcinomas of the lung and pancreas

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.