casket

  • 41casket — noun a small ornamental box or chest for holding valuable objects. ↘Brit. a small wooden box for cremated ashes. ↘chiefly N. Amer. a coffin. Origin ME: perh. an Anglo Norman Fr. form of OFr. cassette, dimin. of casse (see case2) …

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  • 42casket — n. Little box …

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  • 43casket — noun (C) 1 a small decorated box in which you keep jewellery and other valuable objects 2 especially AmE a coffin …

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  • 44casket — n 1. coffin, pall, box, sarcophagus, Scot. and North Eng. kist, Sl. wooden overcoat or kimono. 2. chest, case, container, receptacle …

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  • 45casket — cas·ket …

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  • 46casket — [ˈkɑːskɪt] noun [C] 1) a small decorated box for keeping jewellery and valuable objects in 2) American a coffin …

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  • 47casket — n. 1 a small often ornamental box or chest for jewels, letters, etc. 2 a a small wooden box for cremated ashes. b US a coffin, esp. a rectangular one. Etymology: perh. f. AF form of OF cassette f. It. cassetta dimin. of cassa f. L capsa CASE(2) …

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  • 48Franks Casket — The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Runic Casket) is a small [9 by 7½ by 5⅛ inches, according to Amy L. Vandersall, The Date and Provenance of the Franks Casket Gesta 11.2 (1972:9 26) p. 9; Ms Vandersall summarises the previous scholarship in setting …

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  • 49The Resurrection Casket — Doctorwhobook title=The Resurrection Casket series=New Series Adventures number=9 featuring=Tenth Doctor Rose writer=Justin Richards publisher=BBC Books isbn=ISBN 0 563 48642 2 set between=New Earth and School Reunion pages= date=April 2006… …

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  • 50Bimaran casket — The Bimaran casket is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. When it was found by the archaeologist Charles Masson during his work in Afghanistan between… …

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