bassinet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small bed for a newborn baby, traditionally basket-shaped and sometimes fitted with a hood

   The newborn slept in a bassinet beside her parents' bed.

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from French bassinet ("small basin"), the diminutive of bassin ("basin"). The baby's bed was probably named for its shallow, rounded, basin-like shape.

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