bassinette

English

Etymology

See bassinet.

Noun

bassinette (plural bassinettes)

1. Alternative spelling of bassinet.
   • 2009 May 2, Brett Popplewell, “When half the city took ill”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     He found two children dead in the living room, then went upstairs and found the mother dead in the bedroom with her baby dead in the bassinette beside her."

   • 2009 October 11, Katie Zezima, “Indigent Burials Are on the Rise”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     It now sits in the bassinette where she was to sleep.

Derived terms

• bathinette