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English word

basket

B2
UK /ˈbɑːskɪt/US /ˈbæskɪt/
noun

a container for holding or carrying things. Baskets are made of long thin pieces of material that bends and twists easily, for example plastic, wire or wicker.

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The Danger of a Single Story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TED
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Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made.

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I noticed the lone gardener squatting, carefully picking at the moss with a bamboo tweezer and putting it in a bamboo basket.

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