"glory box" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glory boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "glory box (plural glory boxes)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
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        },
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        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148,\nEvery girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jane Malthus, Chris Brickell, “Producing and Consuming Gender: The Case of Clothing”, in Barbara Lesley Brookes, Annabel Cooper, Robin Law, editors, Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939, page 124:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Kerry Greenwood, The Long Walk, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘[…]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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Zoe Boccabella, Mezza Italiana, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lady’s storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) A lady’s storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "trousseau"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bottom drawer"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "hope chest"
        },
        {
          "word": "glory-box"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "glory box"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glory boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "glory box (plural glory boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "trousseau"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "New Zealand English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148,\nEvery girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jane Malthus, Chris Brickell, “Producing and Consuming Gender: The Case of Clothing”, in Barbara Lesley Brookes, Annabel Cooper, Robin Law, editors, Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939, page 124:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Kerry Greenwood, The Long Walk, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘[…]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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Zoe Boccabella, Mezza Italiana, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lady’s storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) A lady’s storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bottom drawer"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "hope chest"
    },
    {
      "word": "glory-box"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glory box"
}