corbeille

Borrowed from French corbeille.

corbeille (plural corbeilles)

1. A decorative basket.
2. (historical) A basket of clothing and accessories given as part of the dowry from groom to bride.

Inherited from Middle French corbeille, from Old French corbeille, corbeil, corbele, curbeyle, from Late Latin corbicula, diminutive of Latin corbis (“basket”), probably from Frankish *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.bɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

corbeille f (plural corbeilles)

1. wicker basket
2. trash can
3. (computing) trash, recycle bin

• → English: corbeille

• “corbeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.