cassines

The wind being still unfavourable, though the weather was delightful, we rowed along shore, passing by several pretty towns, villages, and a vast number of cassines, or little white houses, scattered among woods of olive-trees, that cover the hills; and these are the habitations of the velvet and damask weavers.

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Some few of these are good villas, belonging to the noblesse of this county; and even some of the bourgeois are provided with pretty lodgeable cassines; but in general, they are the habitations of the peasants, and contain nothing but misery and vermin.

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The lowest class of people consists of fishermen, day labourers, porters, and peasants: these last are distributed chiefly in the small cassines in the neighbourhood of the city, and are said to amount to twelve thousand.

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Her faded bonnet fell back between her shoulders, hanging on by the strings, and her dropped basket, with its "few lill '_bécassines-de-mer_" dangling from the handle, rolled out its okra and soup-joint upon the floor.

Madame Delphine George Washington Cable 1884

"Yez," he said, "it was possible -- a few lill '_bécassines-de-mer_, ou somezin' ligue.

Madame Delphine George Washington Cable 1884