cabas
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cabas m (plural cabas)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
Portuguese
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[edit]cabas
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