Definition of "key-basket" []

• A basket to contain a housekeeper's keys. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Miss Abingdon still used a key-basket and hoped, please God, she would never be called upon to give up this womanly appendage, whatever the world might come to."
• "Miss Abingdon put her key-basket upon the dressing-table and sat down in an armchair on the farther side of the room."
• "Bible on the counterpane and decided once more that young people were inexplicable, and she clung to her key-basket with a feeling of security, and, holding it carefully in her hand, went downstairs again."