trousseau

English

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Etymology

From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse ‘bundle’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/
• Rhymes: -uːsəʊ

Noun

trousseau (plural trousseaus or trousseaux)

1. (obsolete) A bundle.
2. The clothes and linen etc. that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.
   • 1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, translating Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 435:

     Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent.

   • 2012, Caitlin Moran, The Times, 23 Jul 2011:

     When I moved into his flat, in 1996, I brought two black bin liners of washing-up with me. Dirty washing-up. That was by way of my trousseau.

Translations

bridal clothes

• Crimean Tatar: ciyez (northern dialect satuv)
• Italian: corredo (it) m
• Ladino:

  Latin: ashugar m

• Macedonian: мираз (mk) (míraz) m, чеиз (mk) (čéiz) m, приќе (mk) (príḱe) n
• Portuguese: enxoval (pt) m
• Spanish: ajuar (es) m
• Turkish: çeyiz (tr)

See also

• bottom drawer
• dowry
• glory box, glory-box
• hope chest

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French

Noun

trousseau m (plural trousseaux)

1. bunch (of keys)
2. trousseau