glory box

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life. Australia,New-Zealand
    — 1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148, Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order.

词形变化

glory boxes plural glory-box alternative

词源

Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).
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