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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

If we had espoused each other she would have had to do without a trousseau, and I certainly would not have been able to present her with a corbeille.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

He smiled as he thought of the magnificent corbeille of flowers which he had already sent over to the Restaurant Bavaria to be placed in the breakfast-room.

From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage

Oh, haven't you been in Paris long enough to know what a corbeille is?

From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

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