flasket
Americannoun
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a small flask.
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a long, shallow basket.
noun
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a long shallow basket
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a small flask
Etymology
Origin of flasket
1425–75; late Middle English flaskett < Old French flasquet, diminutive of flasque flask 1
Example Sentences
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Then they all started home again, Aunt Isabel carrying the silver-looking flasket.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
Then Sir Tristram took the flasket in his hand, and said, Madam Isoud, here is the best drink that ever ye drank, that Dame Bragwaine, your maiden, and Gouvernail, my servant, have kept for themselves.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
And therewith I held the flasket aloft; but her face changed horribly; she sprang up in her chair and reached out her arm to clutch at the flasket, screaming like an eagle therewith.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
But what it was, that shall ye hear anon when we carried the matter through; but I bade Baudoin still carry the flasket till the evening.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
When Sir Tristram took the flasket in his hand, and said, 'Madam Isoud, here is the best drink that ever ye drunk, that Dame Braguaine, your maiden, and Gouvernail, my servant, have kept for themselves.'
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
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