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English
Etymology
From Middle English flasket, from Old French flaschet, diminutive of Old French flasche, from Late Latin flasca.
Related to Welsh fflasged (“a vessel of straw or wickerwork”), fflasg (“flask, basket”), and English flask.
Noun
flasket (plural flaskets)
- (dated, UK) A long, shallow basket with two handles.
1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:There, in a meadow by the rivers side, A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled* curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket**, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously@ The tender stalkes on hye.
- (dated) A vessel for serving food.
1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:Take a Sturgeon, draw it, and part it down the back in equal sides and rands, put it in a tub into water and salt, and wash it from the blood and slime, bind it up with tape or packthred, and boil it in a vessel that will contain it, in water, vinegar, and salt, boil it not too tender; being finely boil'd take it up, and being pretty cold, lay it on a clean flasket or tray till it be through cold, then pack it up close.
References
“flasket”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Danish
Verb
flasket
- past participle of flaske
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French flaschet; equivalent to flask + -et.
Pronunciation
Noun
flasket
- (rare) Any receptacle for storage.
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