trousseau

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/ Rhymes: -uːsəʊ Hyphenation: trous‧seau === Noun === trousseau (plural trousseaus or trousseaux) The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these. 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. (obsolete) A bundle. ==== Translations ==== === See also === bottom drawer dowry glory box, glory-box hope chest == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French trousseaul, from Old French torsel, diminutive of torse, trusse, from Old French trosser, trusser. More at trousser. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁu.so/ === Noun === trousseau m (plural trousseaux) bunch (of keys) trousseau (clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects) === Further reading === “trousseau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012