corbeille

American  

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

noun

plural

corbeilles

1. a variant of corbeil.

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Example Sentences

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 found Grandet in conference with a goldsmith, from whom he had ordered jewels for Mademoiselle d'Aubrion's corbeille, and who was then submitting the designs.

From Eugenie Grandet by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

She brought in Doctor Chantry as she had brought me, to behold the corbeille; covering her father's folly with transparent fabrications, which anybody but the literal Briton must have seen through.

From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell