casket
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casket
n. coffin; box, chest

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Casket
A casket, or jewelry box is a term for a container that is usually larger than a box, and smaller than a chest, and in the past was typically decorated. In recent times they are mostly receptacles for trinkets and jewels, but in earlier periods, when other types of container were rarer, and the amount of documents held by the typical person far fewer, they were used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. It may take a very modest form, covered in leather and lined with satin, or it may reach the monumental proportions of the jewel cabinets which were made for Marie Antoinette, one of which is at Windsor, and another at Versailles. Both were the work of Schwerdfeger as cabinet maker, his assistants Michael Reyad, Mitchell Stevens, Christopher Visvis, Degault as miniature painter, and Thomire as chaser.

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casket

Noun
1. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
(synonym) coffin
(hypernym) box
(hyponym) bier
2. small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
(synonym) jewel casket
(hypernym) box

Verb
1. enclose in a casket
(hypernym) enclose, inclose, shut in
(derivation) coffin


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casket
n. skříňka; šperkovnice

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casket
Rzecz. trumna


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