corbeille
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French corbeille.
Noun
[edit]corbeille (plural corbeilles)
- A decorative basket.
- (historical) A basket of clothing and accessories given as part of the dowry from groom to bride.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French corbeille, from Old French corbeille, corbeil, corbele, curbeyle, from Late Latin corbicula, diminutive of Latin corbis (“basket”), probably from Frankish *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corbeille f (plural corbeilles)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: corbeille
Further reading
[edit]- “corbeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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