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A crib's tiny starter home, built for a tenant who outgrows it in months.
means A small portable bed or basket-like crib designed for a newborn or very young infant.
from Comes from French bassinet, a diminutive of bassin meaning 'basin,' which traces back to a low Latin word for a shallow vessel. The sense shift from 'small basin' to 'baby's crib' likely rode on the shape — a shallow, curved, basket-like hollow — before English borrowed the word in the 19th century to mean the hooded wicker or wood cradle we picture today.
- weight limit
- usually caps around 15-20 pounds
- rocking feature
- mimics womb motion to fake calm
- lifespan
- obsolete by month four to six
- name origin
- french basinet meant small basin