casket
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
casket (plural caskets)
- A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
- They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
- (Britain) An urn.
- (North America) A coffin.
- (nautical) A gasket.
- French: coffret
- German: Schatulle, Kästchen
- Italian: scrigno, cofanetto
- Portuguese: porta-joias
- Russian: шкату́лка
- Spanish: cofrecito, joyero
casket (caskets, present participle casketing; past and past participle casketed)
- (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- circa 1602 William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,
- I have […] casketed my treasure.
- circa 1602 William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,
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