Cassone
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
"There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy."
Example
More examples"There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy."
Etymology
From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.
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