cabas

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See also: cabás, cabàs, and Cabas

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From French cabas.

Noun

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cabas

  1. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
  2. A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.ba/ ~ /ka.bɑ/
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Noun

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cabas m (plural cabas)

  1. shopping basket
  2. (Louisiana) backpack

Descendants

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  • English: cabas
  • Spanish: cabás

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Noun

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cabas

  1. plural of caba