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cassolettes

cassolettes is the plural of cassolette.

Meaning of cassolette

Noun

cassolette (countable and uncountable, plural cassolettes)

  1. (countable) 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)
  2. 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

Questions about cassolettes

What is cassolettes the plural of?
Cassolettes is the plural of cassolette.

Words near cassolettes in the dictionary

  1. cassod tree
  2. Cassoday
  3. cassole
  4. cassoles
  5. cassolette
  6. cassolettes
  7. Casson
  8. cassonade
  9. cassonades
  10. cassone
  11. cassones

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