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  kas

  noun

  (in the Netherlands and in Dutch colonies) a large cabinet of the 17th and 18th centuries, having two doors and often a number of drawers at the bottom, and usually having an elaborately painted or carved decoration with a heavy cornice.
• Kas.
  Kas.

  abbreviation

  Kansas.

kas

¹ American  

[kahs] / kɑs /

noun

1. (in the Netherlands and in Dutch colonies) a large cabinet of the 17th and 18th centuries, having two doors and often a number of drawers at the bottom, and usually having an elaborately painted or carved decoration with a heavy cornice.

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Kas. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Kansas.

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Etymology

Origin of kas

From Dutch; see origin at case ²

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Example Sentences

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kas Kas.

Candidate Tom Dewey, who kas always been a faithful reader of the pollster's barometer, was presented last week with a forecast of the political climate.

From Time Magazine Archive

This s is only wanted to supply the final s of kas, the interrogative pronoun, in such a sentence as kas tadgunah? what is the use of this?

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

On a handsome kas stands a statuette of Cupid.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton

I live in the East main street of Ujjaini, which is twenty kas to the south of this place, and so lies on your way when you return from Benares.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Over the chimney-piece is a beautifully painted landscape, and on the left against the wall a large armoire or kas of black wood ornamented with gold, above which hangs a large portrait.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton

Powder Makatay Kas. ki tay o Al aizay Tel ge gonna.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean

W Wait, Anna C., 18; welcomes conv. to Kas. in '86, 418;assists on Kas. chap.,

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

Ass'n. of '84, 406;influence on Kas. laws, 407;rep. as ch. ex. com. of Amer.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

They at once got after Zimick so hard that he took me and went to Kinsely, Kas., where Mr. Gorman was.

From The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Nat Love

Suffrage, in Kas., xv; bill vetoed in Mich., xv; 123;effect in Kas.,

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

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