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 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 Malory, Thomas, Sir
Then they all started home again, Aunt Isabel carrying the silver-looking flasket.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
There had been no romantic undermeaning in all that harp-ukelele business, in the flasket of ice-cream soda, in the mysterious sickness.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
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 Gatlin, Dana
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