cabas

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noun

A flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag, usually used by women.

OriginFrench cabas →
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Meanings

cabas1

noun

alternative caba

  1. archaicA 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
    1 more example

    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 slides and tassels for the purses chosen—the whole "tripotage", in short, was off my mind; nothing but the fruit and the felicitations remained to be attended to.

Cabas2

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Caba

Origin

  1. Frenchcabas
  2. Englishcabas

From French cabas.

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cabas. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabas

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Chicago

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