cassolette
cassolette noun: a box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
Noun
cassolette (countable and uncountable, plural cassolettes)
- A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
- Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
- The natural scent of a woman.
- “Don't you like the word cassolette, Julian?” He supposed Thayer thought she was being clever. Cassolette was also a reference to the natural fragrance of a woman.2015, Peter Golden, Wherever There Is Light: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 234
- I know you're in a hurry to find out about cassolette, but please first note that “if you use your palm, rub it over your own and your partner's armpit area first.”2015, Christopher Buckley, But Enough About You: Essays, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 234
Forms of cassolette
| plural | cassolettes |
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Origin of cassolette
From French cassolette, from Spanish cazoleta (“pan”).
Questions about cassolette
- What does cassolette mean?
- Cassolette means a box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
- What part of speech is cassolette?
- Cassolette is a noun.
- What is the plural of cassolette?
- The plural of cassolette is cassolettes.
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