casket
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Italian jewelry casket, from 1857, made of carved walnut, ebony and lined with red velvet
English
Etymology
Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/, /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/
- Rhymes: -æskɪt, (UK) -ɑːskɪt
Noun
casket (plural caskets)
- A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in The Last Man. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:
- They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
The Hunt for the Red Casked
- (British) An urn.
- (Canada, US) A coffin.
- (nautical) A gasket.
Derived terms
Translations
little box e.g. for jewelry
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urn
coffin — see coffin
Verb
casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)
- (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- I have […] casketed my treasure.