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
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Then the witch-wife took up the flasket and pulled out the stopple and betook it to Birdalone, and said: Drink of this now, a little sip, no more.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
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
Then they all started home again, Aunt Isabel carrying the silver-looking flasket.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
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
Drink now to me out of this precious flasket, and thou shalt be whole and well.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
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