cassone

From Italian cassone.

cassone (plural cassones or cassoni)

1. A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 107:

     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.

   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 45:

     On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.

• cassone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Escanos, casones

cassa +‎ -one

• IPA^(key): /kasˈso.ne/

cassone m (plural cassoni)

1. Augmentative of cassa; large chest or case
2. cofferdam, caisson, pontoon
3. skip (for waste), dumpster
4. truck dumping / tipping body

• cassonetto

• cessano
• nascose