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bassinette

bassinette

English

Noun

bassinette (plural bassinettes)

  1. Alternative spelling of bassinet
    • 2009 May 2, Brett Popplewell, “When half the city took ill”, in Toronto Star:
      He found two children dead in the living room, then went upstairs and found the mother dead in the bedroom with her baby dead in the bassinette beside her."
    • 2009 October 11, Katie Zezima, “Indigent Burials Are on the Rise”, in New York Times:
      It now sits in the bassinette where she was to sleep.