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Cassolette


Casˊso-lette′

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Noun.
[F.]
a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

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cassolette

cassolette

English

Noun

cassolette (plural cassolettes)

  1. A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]