Kast vs Bast - What's the difference?
kast | bast |
A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 19, Roberta Smith, Decorative Tradition, Laced With Bursts of Eccentricity, New York Times
, passage=At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green. }}
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
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, title= * 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
As a noun kast
is a type of traditional cupboard produced by dutch settlers in new york and new jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries.kast
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.