a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past （尤指旧时放珠宝等贵重物品的）精致小盒，装饰精美的小箱 Inside lay a casket of gold coins. 里面放着一箱金币。
- (North American English) (also coffin especially in British English)
a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated 棺材；棺椁；棺木 A procession of mourners slowly followed the casket. 一队哀悼者慢慢跟随棺材。
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc2The casket was lowered into the grave. 棺材放进了墓穴。 an open-casket funeral 开放灵柩葬礼 the flag-draped caskets of soldiers coming home 覆盖着国旗的回国士兵的灵柩
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wooden
- closed
- open
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- carry
- close
- lower
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- in a/the casket
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.