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trousseaus

trousseaus is the plural of trousseau.

Meaning of trousseau

Noun

trousseau (plural trousseaus or trousseaux)

  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...1906 September 29, The Literary Digest, volume XXXIII, number 13 (whole no., 858), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, 44 to 60 East 23d Steet, New York, →OCLC, page 439
  2. (obsolete) A bundle.

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Questions about trousseaus

What is trousseaus the plural of?
Trousseaus is the plural of trousseau.

Words near trousseaus in the dictionary

  1. trouses
  2. trousies
  3. trousse
  4. trousseau
  5. Trousseau's sign
  6. trousseaus
  7. trousseaux
  8. trousses
  9. trout
  10. trout cod
  11. trout cods

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