hope chest

Noun

Meaning

chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage

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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared. Dorothy Allison

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