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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

Example Sentences

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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

But it is worthy of note that while the Babylonian might be possessed by seven evil spirits, the Egyptian could have as many as fourteen good spirits or kas.

From The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith

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

It could act and visit other kas after death, but it could not resist the least touch of physical force.

From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

On a handsome kas stands a statuette of Cupid.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton

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

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

I invited Mr. Leonard Smith, of Leavenworth, Kas., to go with me up to his house and see him.

From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross

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

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