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• a variation of corbeil.

corbeille

American  

[kawr-buhl, kawr-be-y^uh] / ˈkɔr bəl, kɔrˈbɛ jə /

noun

• corbeilles
  plural

1. a variant of corbeil.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• corbeilles
  plural

Example Sentences

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corbeille corbeilles

It includes Claude Monet’s water-lily painting “Nympheas en fleur,” estimated to sell for $50 million-$70 million, and Pablo Picasso’s “Fillette a la corbeille fleurie,” which has an estimate of $90 million-$120 million.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2018

For a tumultuous 30 minutes every afternoon, traders mill around a closed-off corbeille on the Paris Bourse to buy and sell gold for French banks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ordered the corbeille from Paris, and contained himself with what patience he could until it arrived; then they were married.

From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

She had heard of the corbeille, the wedding dress, the wedding festivities, and occasionally a word or two about that secondary consideration the bridegroom.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There were not many tiaras when I first knew Paris society; now every young woman has one in her corbeille.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, to cover the men from the enemy's shot.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

All the personnel came in to see me and brought their New Year's present—4 pretty corbeilles for bonbons.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

First the small baskets are filled, then the big corbeilles, and then the sacks.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall