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glory box

glory box noun: a woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.

Noun

glory box (plural glory boxes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
    • Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order.1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148
    • Trousseaux and glory boxes could be slowly built up while women were engaged in the paid workforce, before marriage heralded the loss of an independent income.2003, Jane Malthus, Chris Brickell, “Producing and Consuming Gender: The Case of Clothing”, in Barbara Lesley Brookes, Annabel Cooper, Robin Law, editors, Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in...

Examples of glory box in a sentence

  • ‘[…]You can work on my daughter′s glory box.2004, Kerry Greenwood, The Long Walk, unnumbered page:
  • She said that her mother brought them out to Australia in a baule — a huge glory box — along with blankets, kitchen utensils, crockery, and 32 litres of olive oil in tins.2011, Zoe Boccabella, Mezza Italiana, unnumbered page:

Synonyms of glory box

Forms of glory box

pluralglory boxes
alternative formglory-box

Origin of glory box

Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).

Questions about glory box

What does glory box mean?
Glory box means a woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
How do you use glory box in a sentence?
‘[…]You can work on my daughter′s glory box.
What part of speech is glory box?
Glory box is a noun.
What is the plural of glory box?
The plural of glory box is glory boxes.

Words near glory box in the dictionary

  1. glorisome
  2. Glorithverse
  3. Glorvina
  4. glory
  5. glory be
  6. glory box
  7. glory boxes
  8. glory boy
  9. glory boys
  10. glory bush
  11. glory days

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