bascauda

• an article of table furniture, prob. a delicately woven mat, or dish-holder of basket-work, Juv. 12, 46; Mart. 14, 99, 1.

• cf. Engl. basket, a woven mat, dish holder of basket-work, Iu.

BASCAUDAa word borrowed, like our English basket, from the ancient British language (Welsh basged, Cornish basced), and mentioned by Martial (Mart. 14.99, as an acceptable xenium, imported from Britain, and by Juvenal, 12.46, among a number of valuable articles of plate. The Scholiast on the latter passage explains bascaudae as vasa ubi calices lavabantur vel cacabus; but it seems better to take the word in Martial as a basket, whose neatness made it a suitable present, and in Juvenal also as a silver basket in imitation of the barbarian workmanship.

A word borrowed, like the English basket, from the ancient British language (Welsh, basged) and mentioned by Martial (xiv. 99) as imported from Britain. The original form of basket appears to have been imitated in silver (Juv.xii. 46).