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bassinet

[ bas-uh-net, bas-uh-net ]

noun

  1. a basket with a hood over one end, for use as a baby's cradle.
  2. a style of perambulator resembling this.
  3. Armor. basinet.


bassinet

/ ˌbæsɪˈnɛt /

noun

  1. a wickerwork or wooden cradle or pram, usually hooded


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bassinet1

1570–80; < French: pan; basin, -et

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bassinet1

C19: from French: little basin, from bassin basin ; associated in folk etymology with French barcelonnette a little cradle, from berceau cradle

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Example Sentences

Once Zoomer Coyote entered the world, there would be no pink or blue bassinet cards in the hospital nursery.

Weaving through the jungle of wailing ambulances on 1st Avenue was a bright-eyed young dad, light-blue bassinet in tow.

I was barely out of the bassinet when the country last experienced a recession.

Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.

A wide-rimmed helm is often represented as worn over or in place of the bassinet, and jewelled and crested.

The babe practically unwashed, the house becomes grimy, and the bed and bassinet nasty.

This completes one diamond, which for a bassinet quilt will be large enough.

The form "bassinet" is used for the hooded wicker cradle or perambulator for babies.

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