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noun (pl2=trousseaux)
  1. (obsolete) A bundle.
  2. The clothes and linen etc. that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.
    • 1918: Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's 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)
Translations: 
  • Italian: corredo
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: ajuar
Etymology: From French, trousseau, diminutive of trousse "bundle".


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