Wood boxes, often covered in leather and tooled in gilt or bound with iron, which were used as traveling trunks to store papers, valuables, and clothes; of a type made in the late Medieval period.
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chests, traveling
coffers, traveling
coffers, travelling
coffers, trussing
standards (trussing coffers)
traveling chests
traveling coffers
traveling trunks
travelling chests
travelling coffers
travelling trunks
travelling-chests
trunks, traveling
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