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Definition of Cassone
1. a large chest [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassone
| cast cast-iron cast-iron plant cast-off cast-off(a) cast a chill cast a pall cast a shadow cast about |
Literary usage of Cassone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The entire eight were united in 1892 to the deanery of Detmold, presided over by
ten priests. cassone, or marriage chest, at Casa Torrigiani, ..."
2. Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting by Bernard Berenson (1918)
"A cassone-FRONT AT LE HAVRE BY GIROLAMO DA CREMONA UNTIL twenty years ago, ...
To this very scanty list I propose to add another, a cassone-front at Le ..."
3. Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education (1863)
""cassone" in carved chestnut, the front panel ornamented with floriated ...
cassone" in carved chestnut wood. On the sides are represented scenes from the ..."
4. Bernini, and Other Studies in the History of Art by Richard Norton (1914)
"There are in Padua two other cassone pictures representing the fables of Myrrha
and of Erysichthon as told by Ovid in the " Metamorphoses " (VIII fab. ..."
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