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单词 casket
释义

casket

English

Italian jewelry casket, from 1857, made of carved walnut, ebony and lined with red velvet

Etymology

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask[1][2], thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/, /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
    • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/
  • Rhymes: -æskɪt, (UK) -ɑːskɪt

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

  1. 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.
      The Hunt for the Red Casked
  2. (Britain) An urn.
  3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
  4. (nautical) A gasket.

Derived terms

  • casket magazine

Translations

Verb

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
      I have [] casketed my treasure.
  • cask

References

  1. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/casket
  2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket

Anagrams

  • sacket
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