corbeille

[ kawr-buhl; French kawr-be-yuh ]

/ ˈkɔr bəl; French kɔrˈbɛ yə /

a variant of corbeil.

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

Here's the consolation:—my father will be obliged to turn his corbeille into my trousseau when I am married!
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Wasn't that a divine flash about the corbeille and the mayor?
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Your wedding gown, your corbeille, all will be of the best; I shall see to that myself.
Bayou Folk|Kate Chopin
The word corbel, French corbeille, means literally a large flat basket.
Stones of the Temple|Walter Field

Was not the corbeille de mariage a wonder and an envy to all her acquaintance?
The Minister's Wooing|Harriet Beecher Stowe