Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
basket in whichclothes are carried to thewash .
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Examples
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He always has the air of weighing something, and when he is put into the cupboard of the young ladies' school he seems as heavy as Falstaff in the buck-basket at Windsor.
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By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.
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He always has the air of weighing something, and when he is put into the cupboard of the young ladies' school he seems as heavy as Falstaff in the buck-basket at Windsor.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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He always has the air of weighing something, and when he is put into the cupboard of the young ladies' school he seems as heavy as Falstaff in the buck-basket at Windsor.
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Finally he removed the _furoshiki_ to their outer room, mumbling some excuse as to the foulness of a buck-basket.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Mead, where Falstaff overflowed the buck-basket, belongs to the boys.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Fords approach; and in her invention, and Fords wifes distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
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By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.
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Falstaff's visit to Mistress Ford, as planned by the merry wives, the comical episode of his concealment in the buck-basket, and his dumping into the Thames.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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In the last act, undaunted by his buck-basket experiences, Falstaff accepts a fresh invitation to meet Mistress Ford in Windsor Park.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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