cassone

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cassone

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From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.

noun cassones · cassoni

A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest. 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.

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"cassone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cassone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cassone. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cassone

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"cassone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cassone.

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@misc{cassone_2026,
  title = {cassone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cassone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}