cassone
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian cassone.
Noun
cassone (plural cassones or cassoni)
- A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 107:
- There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 45:
- On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 107:
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Italian
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Noun
cassone m (plural cassoni)
- Augmentative of cassa; large chest or case
- cofferdam, caisson, pontoon
- skip (for waste), dumpster
- truck dumping / tipping body
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