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Old French
Etymology
From Italian casana (“credit establishment”); influenced by case for the French sense of "homebody".
Noun
casenier oblique singular, m (oblique plural caseniers, nominative singular caseniers, nominative plural casenier)
- an Italian banker, creditor, userer based in France
- comme li casenier italien demourans en nostre royaume. ― like the Italian userer residing in our kingdom.
- (colloquial) stay-at-home, homebody
15th century, Vincent Carloix, Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, sire de Vieilleville et comte de Duretal, maréchal de France, volume IV, section 10:
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