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Kast

//kæst// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries

    "At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kastō.

Etymology 2

* As a German surname, from Kast, a spelling variant of Karst, the dropping of the r being common in northern dialects, from the noun Karst (“hoe, mattock”). * As an Alemannic German surname, from the medieval personal name Arbogast. * See also the etymology at Gast.

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