different between handbag vs cabas

English

Etymology

From hand +? bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?hænd?bæ?/, /?hæm.b??/

Noun

handbag (plural handbags)

1. (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
2. (uncountable) An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
   • 2006, Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee, The Popular Music Studies Reader, Psychology Press ?ISBN, page 102

     Who else would lug around that uptight feminine appendage, that burdensome emblem of adulthood — the handbag? ... The music genre had even come to be called 'handbag house'. As one clubber explained to  ...

Synonyms

• (bag used by women): purse (North American)
• (subgenre of house music): diva house, handbag house

Hyponyms

• man-bag, murse

Derived terms

• handbags at dawn
• hardbag
• man-bag

Translations

See also

• ????

Verb

handbag (third-person singular simple present handbags, present participle handbagging, simple past and past participle handbagged)

1. (Britain, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher).

Further reading

• handbag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• handbag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• caba

Etymology

French cabas

Noun

cabas

1. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
2. A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.
   • a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857

     I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas […]

Anagrams

• AACSB, ASBCA, BCAAs, Bacas, abacs

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Portuguese cabaz, Spanish copazo and cabás).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.b?/, /ka.ba/

Noun

cabas m (plural cabas)

1. shopping basket

Descendants

• ? English: cabas

Further reading

• “cabas” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).