Nearby Words
noun
1.
a coffin.
2.
a small chest or box, as for jewels.
verb (used with object)
3.
to put or enclose in a casket.
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Casketed
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < ?
1425–75; late Middle English < ?
Related forms
cas·ket·like, adjective
un·cas·ket·ed, adjective
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Word Origin & History
casket
1461, "small box for jewels, etc.," possibly formed as a dim. of Eng. cask, or from Norm.-Fr. cassette, from M.Fr. casset (see cassette). Meaning of "coffin" is Amer.Eng., probably euphemistic, first attested 1849.
EXPAND"Caskets! a vile modern phrase, which compels a person ... to shrink ... from the idea of being buried at all." [Hawthorne, 1863]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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