Definition of Cabas

1. n. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

Definition of Cabas

1. caba [n] - See also: caba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabas

caballed
caballer
caballero
caballeros
caballers
caballine
caballing
cabals
cabalzarite
caban
cabana
cabanas
cabane
cabaret
cabarets
cabas (current term)
cabbage
cabbage-bark tree
cabbage bark
cabbage goiter
cabbage palm
cabbage palmetto
cabbage palms
cabbage tree
cabbage white
cabbage whites

Literary usage of Cabas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"This common peasants' word cabas was subjected to a fashionable craze in the ... Alex andrine, bring me down my cabas. I muet hav something to toss these ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... which they powre into a great cabas, which growes upon Trees, whereof some are halfe as big as a Kilderkin, and will hold at least twelve Kans, ..."

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