Noun: cassis
| Singular | cassis |
| Plural | cassises |
Sample Sentences
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Cassis and soda is a popular drink.
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The bartender looked at her malevolently for a moment, shook his head, and walked away to mix the drink. "I never had one of those, those vermouth cassises," Freddie said. [1972, Evan Hunter, Every Little Crook and Nanny, page 132:]
Nouns inflected like cassis
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cassis (“black currant”), probably from Latin cassia, from Hebrew קציעה (qetzi'ah). See: French Nouns '
cassis', Latin Nouns '
cassia'.