corbeilles
- plural of corbeille.
Example Sentences
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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 Waddington, Mary King
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
First the small baskets are filled, then the big corbeilles, and then the sacks.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
