Today’s Artscroll word of the day: trousseau – The bride uses the time between kedushin and nesuin to prepare her trousseau. Page 34A2 Note # 17.
Encarta says: Trousseau- a bride's clothes and linen, especially items such as nightgowns, underwear, blankets, and sheets, that she has collected during the period of her engagement.
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4 comments:
well you know they certainly weren't going to use the word "underwear" in a gemara
did you ever use the silberman hebrew-english rashi as a kid? (personally i still prefer this edition). its the small blue 5 vols, not the tall interlinear edition
anyway he simply didn't translate sexual rashis altogether
Rashi, Condiments and Sex
I never saw that translation. We never were allowed to use translations in my day school, and as a result, my skills are somewhat lacking. We may have skipped whatever rashi's our rabbaim deemed "inapproriate".
As far as I know, it is not used to just mean "underwear" - even Encarta pointed that out.
People today use the word to refer perfectly appropriate items collected by a kallah to start a new home. Linens, clothing, SHEITELS, china/dishes/pots/pans, silver/flatware, appliances, etc.
Nice blog ppost
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