bassinet
a basket with a hood over one end, for use as a baby's cradle.
a style of perambulator resembling this.
Armor. basinet.
Origin of bassinet
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How to use bassinet in a sentence
Once Zoomer Coyote entered the world, there would be no pink or blue bassinet cards in the hospital nursery.
Weaving through the jungle of wailing ambulances on 1st Avenue was a bright-eyed young dad, light-blue bassinet in tow.
Hundreds Evacuated From NYU’s Tisch Hospital in Hurricane Sandy | Abby Haglage | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI was barely out of the bassinet when the country last experienced a recession.
Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.
The White Company | Arthur Conan DoyleA wide-rimmed helm is often represented as worn over or in place of the bassinet, and jewelled and crested.
Armour in England | J. Starkie Gardner
The babe practically unwashed, the house becomes grimy, and the bed and bassinet nasty.
London's Underworld | Thomas HolmesThis completes one diamond, which for a bassinet quilt will be large enough.
The Ladies' Work-Book | UnknownThe form "bassinet" is used for the hooded wicker cradle or perambulator for babies.
British Dictionary definitions for bassinet
/ (ˌbæsɪˈnɛt) /
a wickerwork or wooden cradle or pram, usually hooded
Origin of bassinet
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