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treasure chest

noun

Definitions

  1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.

  2. A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.

    • They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]
    • The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest.
    • When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide.

  3. Any source of something valuable or beautiful.

    • a treasure chest of poems

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