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caba U.S.
Also 9 cabas.
[ad. F. cabas basket, panier.]
A small satchel or hand-bag. (See also quot. 1865).
1833Lady Morgan Dram. Scenes II. 74 Bring me down my cabas. I must have something to toss these things in. c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. x. 171 Day-pupils, tearing down their cloaks, bonnets, and cabas from the wooden pegs. Ibid. xiii. 229 She proceeded..to open her cabas, to take out her books. 1865Webster, Cabas, a flat basket..for figs, &c.; hence, a lady's flat work-basket or reticule;—often written caba. 1877H. Ruede Sod-House Days (1937) 27 The pump..furnished the liquor and the caba furnished the solids for the meal. 1885Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 7 Sept. 2/4 The origin of the word ‘caba’ applying to the small hand-bag or satchel..The French cabas, a frail basket, hand basket, etc., was used upon ladies' work-boxes imported thirty years ago. |