cassone

noun

1. A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.

   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.

Where it comes from

From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cassone (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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