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In American English, this is the everyday word for the box a dead body is placed in for burial — what British English usually calls a 'coffin'. There is an older, less common meaning too: a small, box for keeping jewellery or other precious things safe.
From the word’s history
Probably from Norman French cassette, possibly reshaped after cask; a doublet of cassette.
可能源自諾曼法語 cassette，後受 cask 影響改形。
組成Probably comes from an old French word for a small box. Some people connect it to 'cask' (a barrel), but that link isn't certain, so I won't promise it.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
casketnoun/ˈkæs.kɪt/
- 1
A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket. The Hunt for the Red Casked
- 2
An urn.
- 3
A coffin.
- 4
nauticaltransportA gasket.
casketverb/ˈkæs.kɪt/
- 1
To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- I have […] casketed my treasure.
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