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Definition of Bassett
1. Proper noun. An English surname derived from a nickname for a short person. ¹
2. Proper noun. A town in Hampshire, close to Southampton. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bassett
1. a hound [n -S]
Literary usage of Bassett
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"After the Revolution, when bassett, having left the college in haste, desired to
take away ... It is thought, however, that bassett had not been ordained. ..."
2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1904)
"No interest was bassett. paid on the deposits after December, 1842. In December,
1848, Charles bassett Roe and Thomas Blackford became bankrupt. ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1884)
"ever, dull creatures at bassett, agricultural in their ways—a little too beery,
... bassett was given to dissent in religion, but the living was held by a ..."
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