资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cabas \Ca*bas"\ (k[.a]*b[aum]"), n. [F.]
   A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat
   workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written {caba}.
   --C. Bront['e].