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Trousseaux vs Trousseau - What's the difference?

trousseaux | trousseau |

As nouns the difference between trousseaux and trousseau

is that trousseaux is while trousseau is (obsolete) a bundle.

trousseaux

English

Noun

(head)
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    trousseau

    English

    (wikipedia trousseau)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A bundle.
  • The clothes and linen etc. that a bride collects for her wedding and married life.
  • * 1918 , , translating Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina , Oxford 1998, p. 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.
  • * 2012 , (Caitlin Moran), The Times , 23 Jul 2011:
    • When I moved into his flat, in 1996, I brought two black bin liners of washing-up with me. Dirty washing-up. That was by way of my trousseau .

    See also

    * bottom drawer * dowry * glory box, glory-box * hope chest ----