treasure chest

Definitions

1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
2. A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.
   metonymically
3. Any source of something valuable or beautiful.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]”

“The visitors pour⟳ upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest.”

“When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have⟳ been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide.”

“a treasure chest of poems”

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