corbeille

American  

[kawr-buhl, kawr-be-y^uh] / ˈkɔr bəl, kɔrˈbɛ yə /

noun

plural

corbeilles

1. a variant of corbeil.

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Example Sentences

It includes Claude Monet’s water-lily painting “Nympheas en fleur,” estimated to sell for $50 million-$70 million, and Pablo Picasso’s “Fillette a la corbeille fleurie,” which has an estimate of $90 million-$120 million.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2018

For a tumultuous 30 minutes every afternoon, traders mill around a closed-off corbeille on the Paris Bourse to buy and sell gold for French banks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing was talked of or discussed but the corbeille de mariage which the bridegroom had brought—the dresses, laces, sets of jewels, and cashmere shawls.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

You have excellent taste, my dear, attend to the corbeille yourself.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

She had heard of the corbeille, the wedding dress, the wedding festivities, and occasionally a word or two about that secondary consideration the bridegroom.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)