[bask] 
| 1. | one of a people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees regions in France and Spain. |
| 2. | their language, not known to be related to any other language. |
| 3. | (lowercase ) a close-fitting bodice, sometimes having an extension that covers the hips. |
| 4. | (lowercase) the extension of this bodice or of a doublet. |
| 5. | of or pertaining to the Basques or their language. |
| basque (bāsk) n. A woman's close-fitting bodice. [French, skirt of a garment, alteration (perhaps influenced by Basque, Basque) of Old French baste, from Italian basta, tuck, possibly of Germanic origin.] |
| Basque (bāsk) n.
[French, probably from Latin Vascō, perhaps from Barscunes, Bascunes, ethnonym of the Pyrenees region in antiquity.] Basque adj. |