casket

Italian jewelry casket, from 1857, made of carved walnut, ebony and lined with red velvet

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Origin

  • Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + --et. cassette.

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