different between reticule vs cabas

English

Etymology

From French réticule, from Latin reticulum, diminutive of r?te (“net”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t?kju?l/

Noun

reticule (plural reticules)

1. A reticle; a grid in the eyepiece of an instrument. [from 18th c.]
   • 2017: "The Legend of WWII’s Bombsight Rapunzel" by Eric Grundhauser

     [H]er hair had been used to create the reticule in the famous Norden bombsight—a top-secret WWII targeting device.

2. A small women's bag made of a woven net-like material. [from 19th c.]
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:

     She carries some small litter in a reticule which she calls her documents, principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book 3, Chapter 8,^[1]

     Miss Pross, exploring the depths of her reticule through her tears with great difficulty, paid for her wine.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 606,^[2]

     Pléiade […] lingered through another bottle of wine before producing from her reticule a Vacheron & Constantin watch […] .

Translations

Anagrams

• crueltie

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).