cabas
English
Alternative forms
Noun
cabas
- A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
- A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.
- a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857
- I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas […]
- a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cabas in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ba/, /ka.bɑ/
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Further reading
- “cabas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*capacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 1623
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