bathinet/baskinet

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Mar 10, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> I've probably heard "bathinet" before, but when I was a child in
> Michigan we had a bassinet for my younger sister, and we had bassinets
> for our three.  They fit Amy's description.

i'm puzzled.  Amy was describing what she knows as a "bathinet", which
she says was different from a "basinet" (i.s., bassinet).  are you
saying that the things you know as "bassinets" were/are used for
bathing babies?
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Nope. It was a real thing. My grandmother had one for my mother and
>> her siblings. (Belmont, MA, 1930s). My understanding is that it was a
>> stand-alone basin with a top cover for laying the baby down. I never
>> saw the object. But it was distinctly different from a basinet.

arnold

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