caban.
U.S. Also .
A small satchel or hand-bag. (See also quot. 1864).
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1833 Lady Morgan Dram. Scenes II. 74 Bring me down my cabas. I must have something to toss these things in.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. x. 171 Day-pupils, tearing down their cloaks, bonnets, and cabas from the wooden pegs.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xiii. 229 She proceeded..to open her cabas, to take out her books.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cabas, a flat basket..for figs, &c.; hence, a lady's flat work-basket or reticule;—often written caba.
1877 H. Ruede Sod-house Days (1937) 27 The pump..furnished the liquor and the caba furnished the solids for the meal.
1885 Boston (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.
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