casket

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English

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Italian jewelry casket, from 1857, made of carved walnut, ebony and lined with red velvet

Etymology

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Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask,[1][2] thus analyzable as cask +‎ -et. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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casket (plural caskets)

  1. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
  2. (British) An urn.
  3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
  4. (nautical) A gasket.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
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References

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  1. ^ casket”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ casket”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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