Phrase guide

glory box

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

  • 1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148, Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).