0 a collection of personal possessions, such as clothes, that a woman takes to her new home when she gets married
The bride's parents settled her dowry, which was usually in the form of cash and a trousseau, setting a timetable for payments.
These devices are not (yet) part of the regular trousseau in the village.
While indicators of the possible values of dowries are not available, it was not just a trousseau.
In addition to earning money through labor and receiving cash from marriage contracts, women received premortem inheritances in the form of trousseaus.
I am afraid that the traditional "bottom drawer" of the modern bride no longer consists of a trousseau of household linen.
It is a trousseau problem—everything wears out simultaneously, and that is what is happening in the new towns.
It remains an integral part of the traditional bridal wedding trousseau.
At one time, these were an indispensable part of the trousseau of a bride-to-be.
