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casketed

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cas⋅ket

  [kas-kit, kah-skit]
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–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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < ?

Related forms:
cas⋅ket⋅like, adjective
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cas·ket   (kās'kĭt)   
n.  

  1. A coffin.

  2. A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.

tr.v.   cas·ket·ed, cas·ket·ing, cas·kets
To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.

[Middle English, possibly alteration of Old French cassette; see cassette.]
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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.
"Caskets! a vile modern phrase, which compels a person ... to shrink ... from the idea of being buried at all." [Hawthorne, 1863]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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