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Definition of Cabas
1. n. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.
Definition of Cabas
1. caba [n] - See also: caba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabas
Literary usage of Cabas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"This common peasants' word cabas was subjected to a fashionable craze in the ...
Alex andrine, bring me down my cabas. I muet hav something to toss these ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... which they powre into a great cabas, which growes upon Trees, whereof some
are halfe as big as a Kilderkin, and will hold at least twelve Kans, ..."
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