trousseau

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/    美 /ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — Trousseaus of German Heiresses.—Despatches from Berlin told recently of the visit to that city of a wealthy German mother and her two daughters. for the purpose of buying trousseaus for the girls who are said to be perhaps the richest heiresses of the world. […] Frau Krupp, widow of the great gunmaker of Essen [Friedrich Alfred Krupp], and her daughters, Bertha and Barbara, have just been here, the object of their visit being to buy the wedding-trousseaus for her daughters.
  2. A bundle. obsolete

词形变化

trousseaus plural trousseaux plural

词汇关系

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词源

Borrowed from French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”).
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