trousseau
see also: Trousseau
Pronunciation Noun
Trousseau
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Trousseau
Pronunciation Noun
trousseau (plural trousseaus)
- The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, transl., Anna Karenina, a Novel (World's Classics; 211), [Cambridge?]: Oxford University Press, OCLC 6561729 ↗; republished Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-158623-1, page 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.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, transl., Anna Karenina, a Novel (World's Classics; 211), [Cambridge?]: Oxford University Press, OCLC 6561729 ↗; republished Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-158623-1, page 435:
- (obsolete) A bundle.
Trousseau
Pronunciation Proper noun
- A variety of red wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera originating in eastern France which is often used in port wine; Bastardo.
- Bastardo
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