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cassones

cassones is the plural of cassone.

Meaning of cassone

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

Questions about cassones

What is cassones the plural of?
Cassones is the plural of cassone.

Words near cassones in the dictionary

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

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