Noun: cassone
| Singular | cassone |
| Plural | cassones; cassoni |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 107:]
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On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone. [1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 45:]
Nouns inflected like cassone
lazarone,
boccale,
panforte,
padrone,
pianoforte,
zeppole,
canzone,
calzone,
cassone,
conversazione,
cortile,
lazzarone,
campanile,
armatole,
padre,
condottiere,
ricercare,
ducatone,
pastorale,
cicerone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón. See: Italian Nouns '
cassone'.