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a hope chest (American)

the things a young woman collects to use in her home after she is married. Gloria spent the next few months embroidering sheets for her hope chest.

See also: chest, hope

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In ``Me and You,'' the kids want to grow up fast (one young girl has assembled a hope chest full of kitchenware to give to the man - boy? 'ME AND YOU' DRAWS US IN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) In the 65-minute solo piece, Miller also includes bittersweet tales of boyhood crushes and reminiscences about his fascination with the hope chest that stood at the foot of his mother's bed (the show's title is Down Under-speak for hope chest). Continental divide by Isherwood, Charles / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) My mother had a hope chest full of china when she married at age twenty-three--a desperate age to be single for many women in the late 1950s. Tying the Gordian knot by Cusac, Anne-Marie / The Progressive More results

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In ``Me and You,'' the kids want to grow up fast (one young girl has assembled a hope chest full of kitchenware to give to the man - boy?

'ME AND YOU' DRAWS US IN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

In the 65-minute solo piece, Miller also includes bittersweet tales of boyhood crushes and reminiscences about his fascination with the hope chest that stood at the foot of his mother's bed (the show's title is Down Under-speak for hope chest).

Continental divide by Isherwood, Charles / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

My mother had a hope chest full of china when she married at age twenty-three--a desperate age to be single for many women in the late 1950s.

Tying the Gordian knot by Cusac, Anne-Marie / The Progressive

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