cabas

See also: cabás, cabàs, and Cabas

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French cabas.

Noun

cabas

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
  2. 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, Villette
      And at last I got away. The shop commissions took some time to execute, that choosing and matching of silks and wools being always a tedious business, but at last I got through my list. The patterns for the slippers, the bell-ropes, the cabas were selected—the slides and tassels for the purses chosen—the whole "tripotage", in short, was off my mind; nothing but the fruit and the felicitations remained to be attended to.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ba/ ~ /ka.bɑ/
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Noun

cabas m (invariable)

  1. shopping basket
  2. (Louisiana) backpack

Descendants

  • → English: cabas
  • → Spanish: cabás

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

cabas

  1. plural of caba
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