Marriage loot box thingies

[indri]

According to the OED, "trousseau" has no specific location and has been used since the mid-nineteenth century. My elderly 1870 dictionary includes it.

The term "glory-box" is confined to Australia and New Zealand.

"Hope chest" is chiefly North American but the SOED gives the English equivalent as "bottom drawer."

Unfortunately, my mind has been so warped that the terms "glory-box", hope chest" and "bottom drawer" all seem too suggestive.

I may rewrite the paragraph so I don't need a term at all. Ugh.

Thanks, everyone.

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[abbylee]

Trousseau and hope chest sound familiar to me. Bottom drawer would confuse me. And glory-box sounds hella suggestive.