blanket chest

noun

, Furniture.

1. a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.

Example Sentences

Miss Love was sitting on the blanket chest that Granny’s angels had come out of.

From Literature

“Last night I was changing the bed and my boyfriend had hid my presents for Christmas in the blanket chest. I am grateful but it's just the usual c--- basically,” Poppflorrie begins in a post that has since sparked nearly 150 comments.

From Fox News

There were some treasures: an old suitcase filled with Masonic regalia that seemed to be from the early 1900s, an empty blanket chest that seemed to be from the early 1800s, a weathered Bible, an old hurricane lamp.

From Washington Post

Visitors will see a blanket chest and glove box she made, along with her tools and her ledger, which holds the tallies of her income and expenses and shows she made a donation to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

From New York Times

I inherited a lovely wooden blanket chest from my grandparents, but I can only stack things on top of it because of the strong mothball smell inside.

From Washington Post