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Definition: Trousseau |
TrousseauNoun1. The personal outfit of a bride; clothes and accessories and linens. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trousseau" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trousseau |
| Etymologies containing "trousseau": Trousse. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Robinson's Trousseau (1921) The Bride's Trousseau (1899) | |
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| "Trousseau" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Trousseau" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (common) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trousseau": trousseau-stuff. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trousseau | 30 |
bridal trousseau | 6 |
sign trousseau | 4 |
madame museum trousseau wax | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trousseau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshje e nuses. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جهاز العروس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чеиз, прикя (portion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 奩 (bridal trousseau). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výbava nevìsty. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جهازعروس , جامه یارخت عروس . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kapiot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trousseau de jeune mariée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aussteuer (dowry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προικιά, προίκα (dower, dowry), παράφερνα (paraphernalia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לב ים וב'"ים לכל". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | stafírung, kelengye (outfit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corredo da sposa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 嫁入り"具 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よめいりどうぐ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cullee phoosee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ousseautray enxoval de noiva. (various references) trusou, zestre (Dot, dower, dowry, portion, settlement). (various references) приданое (dower, dowry, layette, tocher, trousseaus, trousseaux). (various references) svežanj (bunch, bundle, cluster, fardel, fascicle, pack, truss), devojačka sprema (paraphernalia). (various references) ajuar (bottom drawer, furniture). (various references) brudutstyrsel. (various references) çeyiz (bottom drawer, dower, dowry, marriage portion, portion). (various references) придане (dower, dowry, portion), посаг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trousseau": trousseaus, trousseaux. (additional references) | |
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"Trousseau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brousseau, Touzeau, triosseum, trosseau, trouseau, trousee, trousseu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: rousseau. | |
-2 letters: arouses, auteurs, estrous, oestrus, ousters, sourest, souters, stoures, sutures, tussore. | |
-3 letters: arouse, assert, assort, assure, asters, aureus, aurous, auteur, estrus, oaters, orates, ouster, outers, roasts, rosets, rouses, rousts, routes, russet, sautes, serosa, serous, setous, sorest, souter, stares, stores, stoure, stours, surest, sutras, suture, tarsus, torses, tosser, touses, tsores, tussar, tusser, tussor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: trousseaus, trousseaux. | |
+2 letters: crustaceous, rouseabouts, stegosaurus. | |
+3 letters: salutiferous, slaughterous, ultraserious. | |
+4 letters: apatosauruses, rapturousness, stegosauruses, subterraneous, supercautious, superovulates. | |
+5 letters: brontosauruses, counterassault, gratuitousness, outrageousness, roundaboutness, slaughterhouse, slaughterously, superambitious, transcutaneous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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