cabas

See also:cabás,cabàs,andCabas

English

Alternative forms

• caba

Etymology

FromFrenchcabas.

Noun

cabas

1. A flatbasketorfrailforfigs,etc.
2. A lady's flatworkbasket,reticule,orhandbag.
   • a.1847,Charlotte Brontë,The Professor,published 1857

     I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into hercabas[…]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

Anagrams

• AACSB,ASBCA,BCAAs,Bacas,abacs

French

Etymology

FromOld Occitancabas,a word of Iberian origin (compareCatalancabàs,Old Galician-Portuguesecabaz,Spanishcapazo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ka.ba/~/ka.bɑ/

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Noun

cabasm(pluralcabas)

1. shoppingbasket
2. (Louisiana)backpack

Descendants

• →English:cabas
• →Spanish:cabás

Further reading

• “cabas”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm(1911) “*capacium”, inRomanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch(in German),page1623

Portuguese

Noun

cabas

1. pluralofcaba