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bottom drawer

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: House
ˌbottom ˈdrawer noun [countable]  British EnglishDHH all the things, especially things that you use in a house, that a woman collects to use when she is married 女子结婚前准备的(家居)用品,嫁妆 SYN American English hope chest
Examples from the Corpus
bottom drawerThe other women hadn't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes.He opened a bottom drawer when Mackey walked in.She had produced a cake from her bottomless bottom drawer, and two gallon jugs of tea with Styrofoam cups.Black's hand found the bottom drawer, and the bottle.The baby slept in the bottom drawer of the dresser: the kitten had a feather cushion.I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer.The bottom drawer of her desk proved to be locked, with no sign of a key.The bottom drawer was pulled out and empty.
ˌbottom ˈdrawer nounChineseSyllable
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bottom drawer
ˌbottom ˈdrawer noun [countable]
British English all the things, especially things that you use in a house, that a woman collects to use when she is married
   SYN  hope chest American English


bottom drawerBrE /ˌbɒtəm ˈdrɔː(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˌbɑːtəm ˈdrɔːr/ 🔊 noun (BrE) items for the house collected by a woman, especially in the past, in preparation for her marriage (and often kept in a drawer) (尤指旧时)女子为结婚而存储的物品,压箱钱财   compare hope chest