corbeille
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French corbeille.
Noun edit
corbeille (plural corbeilles)
- A decorative basket.
- (historical) A basket of clothing and accessories given as part of the dowry from groom to bride.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
corbeille f (plural corbeilles)
Descendants edit
- → English: corbeille
Further reading edit
- “corbeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.