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cassone

cassone noun: a highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.

cassone: a highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest
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Noun

cassone (plural cassones or cassoni)

  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.1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 107
    • On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 45

Forms of cassone

pluralcassones
pluralcassoni

Origin of cassone

From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.

Questions about cassone

What does cassone mean?
Cassone means a highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
What part of speech is cassone?
Cassone is a noun.
What is the plural of cassone?
The plural of cassone is cassones.

Words near cassone in the dictionary

  1. cassolette
  2. cassolettes
  3. Casson
  4. cassonade
  5. cassonades
  6. cassone
  7. cassones
  8. cassoni
  9. Cassons
  10. cassoon
  11. cassoons

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