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† caskanet Obs.
Also cascanet, -kenet, -kinet, casknet.
[Made up by some confusion of casket and carkanet, carcanet: perh. orig. a misprint for the latter, mistaken for a genuine word.]
A word common in the 17th c., which some appear to have identified with carcanet, others to have used in the sense casket.
1607Lingua in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 426 Such stir with sticks and combs, cascanets, dressings..necklaces, carcanets, rebatoes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. (1651) 520 A chain of Pearl, a cascanet of Jewels. 1623Webster Devils Law Case i. ii, Reach me the caskanet. 1638Lanc. Wills (1861) III. 200 A caskenett wth red stones in it. 1641W. Cartwright Siege ii. vi, The sea yields pearls unto thy Caskinet. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 108 Wheras you please to call it the cabinet that holds the jewell of our times, you may rather term it a wicker casknet that keeps a jet ring. 1651― Venice 134 Onely women might weare a small Casknet about their necks. 1693W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxii. 198 The Diamond that is true Brilliant..needs nothing of the Golden Caskanett, to set it off, or adorn it. |