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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of basinet.

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  • Then the prince did off his bassenet, and the knights for his body and they of his chamber were ready about him, and a red pavilion pight up, and then drink was brought forth to the prince and for such lords as were about him, the which still increased as they came from the chase: there they tarried and their prisoners with them.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • Then the prince did off his bassenet, and the knights for his body and they of his chamber were ready about him, and a red pavilion pight up, and then drink was brought forth to the prince and for such lords as were about him, the which still increased as they came from the chase: there they tarried and their prisoners with them.

    The Battle of Poitiers. How King John Was Taken Prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers 1909

  • Then the prince did off his bassenet, and the knights for his body and they of his chamber were ready about him, and a red pavilion pight up, and then drink was brought forth to the prince and for such lords as were about him, the which still increased as they came from the chase: there they tarried and their prisoners with them.

    The Chronicles of Froissart 1523

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