hope chests

noun

plural of hope chest
as in caissons

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  1. compartments
  2. vaults
Noun
  • The Fyy Electronic Organizer has multiple compartments to keep these smaller essentials separated and easy to access.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Much of the vessel was then hidden beneath tarpaulins at the Huangpu shipyard, leaving its forward compartments difficult to examine.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of compartments
Noun
  • Ciarán himself has spent an itinerant four years since Brockhampton’s dissolution in 2022 crafting Róisín, a solo debut that looks back through today’s bedroom-pop bricolage into the roomy vaults of D’Angelo and Prince.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026
  • LastPass, for example, has been breached a couple of times, but the attackers made off with contact data like names and email addresses, never vaults.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of vaults
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