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the original container, woven before pottery and patient enough to outlast empires
means A container made of interwoven strips of material like reed, wicker, or cane, typically used to hold or carry things.
from From Old English 'bæsket,' though the trail goes cold quickly — the word's deeper roots are genuinely uncertain. Some have linked it to Latin 'bascauda' (a vessel for washing dishes), which the Roman writer Martial claimed the Romans took from the Britons — a rare case of a word possibly traveling from Celtic Britain into Latin rather than the other way around. The honest answer is that linguists still aren't sure.
- older than pots
- Baskets predate ceramics by thousands of years
- sports relic
- First basketball hoops were actual peach baskets
- egg wisdom
- Spreading eggs across baskets is risk management itself
- market term
- Currencies and stocks are bundled into trading baskets
- too fragile
- Ancient woven survivors hide in desert dry caves
the last supper basket — leonardo da vinci painted bread basket in 1495 milan fresco
galle face basket — sri lankan woven coir basket tradition from colombo since 1844
nantucket lightship basket — hand-woven oak basket crafted by massachusetts whalers starting 1800s