I'll be sending along a little shower gift pretty soon.

"It makes a great shower gift," says Ms. Mauer, Mr. Kirko's assistant.

Historian Elisabeth Pleck echoes this dynamic in pointing out that traditional shower gifts were "for the bedroom or the kitchen."

Minus two shower gifts.

I needed a shower gift.

Your completed project makes a wonderful housewarming or shower gift, or can be easily replicated for beautiful wedding centerpieces.

No tickets, but bring a shower gift or a check payable to the center's Ob-Gyn fund.

Many expectant parents receive so many hand-me-downs and baby clothes as shower gifts, they don't even need to buy much for their newborn's first several months.

He helped me with my two heavy bags and when we got on the sparsely populated bus announced, "Look, my shower gifts have arrived."

(Lingerie, she added, is "more of a shower gift.")