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cas·ket (kas′kit, käs′-)
noun
- a small box or chest, as for valuables
- ☆ a coffin, esp. a costly one
Etymology: ME, prob. < NormFr cassette, dim. of casse, case; -k by analogy with cask
transitive verb
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casket
n.
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Preposition: of
- jewel: In this way she will be enabled to keep in the family Miss Neville's fortune which consists of a casket of valuable jewels.
Converse of object
- open: The mother was instructed to bury the body the next day and not to open the casket.
Adjective modifier
- silver: He was presented with a silver casket on a visit to his old school, King Edward VI Grammar School.
Noun used with modifier
- silver: A bespectacled young priest, Yousuf, led us barefoot into the unbearable crush of bodies around the saint's silver casket.
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Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
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