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Caba vs Cabas - What's the difference?

caba | cabas | Alternative forms |

Cabas is a alternative form of caba.



As nouns the difference between caba and cabas

is that caba is a cabas, or lady's bag while cabas is a flat basket or frail for figs, etc.

caba

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
  • * 1860 , Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, The haunted homestead: and other nouvellettes (page 279)
    • Mrs. Sherbourne hurriedly searched her pocket, her caba , and her muff, without finding the lost treasure.

    cabas

    English

    Alternative forms

    * caba

    Noun

  • A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
  • A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.
  • * , The Professor
    • I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas
    (Webster 1913) ----