trousseau
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse ‘bundle’.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
trousseau (plural trousseaus or trousseaux)
- (obsolete) A bundle.
- The clothes and linen etc. that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.
- 1918: 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. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 435)
[edit] Translations
bridal clothes
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[edit] French
[edit] Noun
trousseau m. (plural trousseaux)