cassone

plural cassones · plural cassoni

1. A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.

   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

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   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