cassone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large decorated Italian chest, especially a Renaissance marriage or dowry chest

   The painted cassone had once held a bride's linens and wedding gifts.

Borrowed from Italian cassone, the augmentative of cassa, 'box or chest.' In Renaissance Italy, cassoni were often commissioned in pairs for marriages and decorated with carved, gilded, or painted panels.

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