Definition of "wedding-chest" [wedding-chest]

• A chest or coffer, usually of ornamental character, designed to contain the clothes and ornaments of a bride. Compare bridal chest (under chest), and cassone. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""The crimson lacquered wedding-chest that was your mother's, to-day has been sold to buy us food.""
• "Meg's astonishment had increased with the examination of every object -- the carved wooden armchair, which appeared to belong to the best Empire period; the exquisite wedding-chest, of lacquer, the blues and greens of its floral decorations still daringly brilliant and vivid -- they were far brighter and more perfect than any decorations which a faker of antiquities would dare to perpetrate."
• "All afternoon I stolidly planted the gray-green young cabbage sprouts behind Bud's hoe and refused even to think about Bess's wedding-chest."