bathinet/baskinet

[Amy West]

To add to the baby carryin' fun:

We were given for our (now 13 years old) first baby a "Moses basket,"
which was woven from a rope-like material (hemp? cordage? reeds?) and
had 2 carrying handles on it. Lay baby down in it and cart baby with
you from room to room.

---Amy West

>Date:    Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:42:51 -0500
>From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: bathinet/baskinet
>
>FWIW, my own impression since childhood has been that _baskinet_ "a
>kind of basket for carrying a baby in, usually woven from thin, but
>wide, strips of some kind of wood," was a blend of "basket" and
>"bassinet."
>
>-Wilson.

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