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  • noun Alternative spelling of bassinet.

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See bassinet

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Examples

  • She lay in her bassinette whimpering, too exhausted or sick to really cry.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • She lay in her bassinette whimpering, too exhausted or sick to really cry.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • And the following morning I would wake up, take a deep breath, and drag myself over to his bassinette, only to see that nothing had changed.

    The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010

  • Hey – we assembled the bassinette and got the carseat out of storage AFTER my water broke.

    Seconds | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Tash fast-on in her bassinette on the bulkhead, to the relief of the slack-faced fatty in 32H.

    Flash (edited) 2010

  • Then I placed her in the bassinette in the shade and proceeded to poke her and prod her over and over again trying to gauge her temperature.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Then I placed her in the bassinette in the shade and proceeded to poke her and prod her over and over again trying to gauge her temperature.

    Everybody Should Have Two Kids! 2007

  • Two terrific close-ups of Vincent Price are the scene where he gazes into the bassinette of his newborn son, like a greedy man looking upon a stash of gold he has found, awestruck that he has it, but somehow anxious that someone might take it away from him.

    Dragonwyck (1946) Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

  • Two terrific close-ups of Vincent Price are the scene where he gazes into the bassinette of his newborn son, like a greedy man looking upon a stash of gold he has found, awestruck that he has it, but somehow anxious that someone might take it away from him.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

  • Baby Houdini here managed to get her arms out of it in record time, but she did sleep for about an hour in her bassinette.

    Not enough coffee in the world. Kat 2008

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