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cabas

cabas noun: a flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag, usually used by women.

Noun

cabas

  1. (archaic) A flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag, usually used by women.
    • I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas […]a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857
    • 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...

Proper noun capitalized: Cabas

Cabas

  1. (plural) plural of Caba

Forms of cabas

alternative formcaba

Origin of cabas

From French cabas.

Questions about cabas

What does cabas mean?
Cabas means a flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag, usually used by women.
What part of speech is cabas?
Cabas can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near cabas in the dictionary

  1. Cabaroan
  2. Cabarroguis
  3. Cabarrus
  4. Cabarrus County
  5. Cabaruan
  6. cabas
  7. cabasa
  8. Cabasan
  9. Cabasaran
  10. cabasas
  11. Cabassa

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