Definition of "nasse" [nasse]

• A trap made of wicker-work, used in the Mediterranean for catching fish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And he stayed in contact with his ex pat friends in Mont­par­­nasse, painted their portraits eg Kisling C1925 and treated their portraits with respect."
• "Women were washing linen, men sitting on the doorsteps mending _nasse_."
• "Banquet_ is in effect only a free rendering of the immortal fifteenth century satire, assigned on no very solid evidence to Antoine de la Salle, the _Quinze Joyes de Mariage_, the resemblance being kept down to the recurrence at the end of each section of the same phrase, "in Lob's pound," which reproduces the less grotesque "dans la nasse" of the original."