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[indri]

Is there an English term for a trunk or drawer full of things a girl's collected in preparation for her marriage? I thought I knew one, but it turns out to be Australian in origin.

Anyone?

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[indri]

I am thinking of Victorian times, so this should be just right. I did have one friend in high school who had one. Her family were literalist Christians, but I don't know if that had anything to do with it. (And as it turned out, her husband became the stay-at-home dad while she was the breadwinner.)

It must have been a fine thing to have had a feminist grandmother. They must be much more numerous now.