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casket noun [ ˈkɑːskɪt ]

• a small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valued objects.
• "a small brass casket containing four black opals"
Similar: box, chest, case, container, receptacle, coffer, trunk, crate, pyxis,
Origin: late Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse (see case2).


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