Meaning of glory box | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

“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.’”

“She said that her mother brought them out to Australia in a baule — a huge glory box — along with blankets, kitchen utensils, crockery, and 32 litres of olive oil in tins. Tucked in this glory box, the linens travelled in the hull of a ship from Naples across oceans and seas, on a train⟳ from Sydney to Stanthorpe, by horse and cart to Applethorpe and later by ute to Brisbane.”

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