0 a collection of personal possessions, such as clothes, that a woman takes to her new home when she gets married -- 嫁妆
These devices are not (yet) part of the regular trousseau in the village.
It is a trousseau problem—everything wears out simultaneously, and that is what is happening in the new towns.
Trousseau had mortgages and other debts which had to be paid off.
While indicators of the possible values of dowries are not available, it was not just a trousseau.
I am afraid that the traditional "bottom drawer" of the modern bride no longer consists of a trousseau of household linen.
His remains and the mortuary trousseau are displayed at the museum.
The collection of a "trousseau" was a common coming-of-age rite until approximately the 1950s; it was typically a step on the road to marriage between courting a man and engagement.
At one time, these were an indispensable part of the trousseau of a bride-to-be.
