cabas

See also: cabás, cabàs, and Cabas

English

Alternative forms

• caba

Etymology

From French cabas.

Noun

cabas

1. (archaic) A flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag, usually used by women.
   • a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857

     I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas […]

   • 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.

References

• “cabas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AACSB, ASBCA, BCAAs, Bacas, abacs

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ba/ ~ /ka.bɑ/

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Noun

cabas m (invariable)

1. shopping basket
2. (Louisiana) backpack

Descendants

• → English: cabas
• → Spanish: cabás

Further reading

• “cabas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*capacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 1623

Portuguese

Noun

cabas

1. plural of caba