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glory box

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.

    • Trousseaux and glory boxes could be slowly built up while women were engaged in the paid workforce, before marriage heralded the loss of an independent income.
    • ‘[…]You can work on my daughter′s glory box. She′s had to get a job in the pub and she hasn′t had time to finish it and she′s getting married in December.’

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA