cassone
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.
Noun edit
cassone (plural cassones or cassoni)
- A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 107:
- There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 45:
- On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cassone m (plural cassoni)
- Augmentative of cassa; large chest or case
- cofferdam, caisson, pontoon
- skip (for waste), dumpster
- truck dumping / tipping body
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian cassone.
Noun edit
cassone n (plural cassone)
Declension edit
Declension of cassone
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cassone | cassonele | (niște) cassone | cassonele |
genitive/dative | (unui) cassone | cassonelui | (unor) cassone | cassonelor |
vocative | cassone | cassonelor |