glory box

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

glory boxes 复数

别名

glory-box

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.

    澳大利亚 新西兰

    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.

词源

Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).

来源：wiktionary