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Vinony

trousseau

noun

  1. woman's items prepared for and given at marriage
  2. personal belongings of a bride, including clothing, accessories, and household linen
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/ / /ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/

name

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

  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

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

  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.”

    “Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent.”

  2. A bundle.