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Trousseau

//ˈtɹuːsəʊ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A variety of red wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera originating in eastern France which is often used in port wine; Bastardo.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the personal outfit of a bride; clothes and accessories and linens wordnet
  3. 3
    A bundle. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”), possibly from the fact that the grapes in each bunch appear tightly packed together.

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