glory box
glory box
English
Noun
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Definition
A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
Etymology
Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).
Example Sentences
- "1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148, Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order."
- "Trousseaux and glory boxes could be slowly built up while women were engaged in the paid workforce, before marriage heralded the loss of an independent income."
- "‘[…]You can work on my daughter′s glory box. She′s had to get a job in the pub and she hasn′t had time to finish it and she′s getting married in December.’"
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