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Definition of Handbasket
1. Noun. A container that is usually woven and has handles.
Specialized synonyms: Breadbasket, Bushel Basket, Creel, Frail, Hamper, Punnet, Shopping Basket, Skep, Wicker Basket
Generic synonyms: Container
Definition of Handbasket
1. Noun. A basket with a handle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handbasket
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbasket
Literary usage of Handbasket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early by Joseph Ritson, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"... place about the citie, and not farre from Smithfield, that this woman, attired
like a maid-servant, came into a grocer's shop with a handbasket, ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"... populous place about the citie, and not farre from Smithfield, that this woman,
attired like a maidservant, came into a grocers shop with a handbasket, ..."
3. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"Crossing the Seine, I then took a small handbasket, which one of my cousins, a
nun, had given me on my journey through Florence. It made for my good fortune ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... of the order of costermongers, inclines to the one who rides from market on
a moke, rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a handbasket. ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... of the order of costermongers, inclinas to the one who rides from market on
a moke, rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a handbasket. ..."
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