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casier

/ka.zje/

noun, masculine/ka.zje/plural: casiers

locker (for storage); lobster pot, lobster trap; ellipsis of casier judiciaire (“criminal record”)

From case + -ier.

noun, masculine/ka.zje/plural: casiers

a wooden basket, bin or chest in which dairy products such as cheese and butter were stored in the past; a cheesemaker, especially of parmesan

Inherited from Old French chasier, casier (“wicker basket in which cheese was left to dry”), formed as a masculine derivative of chasiere, casiere, itself from an abbreviation of a syntagma involving Latin forma (“form”), cratis (“wickerwork”), cista (“trunk, chest, casket”), or sporta (“basket, hamper”) and Late Latin cāseāria, feminine of cāseārius (“relating to cheese”), from cāseus (“cheese”). Alternatively but less likely directly from cāseārius, although this may apply to the old sense of

casier — French Dictionary | Passage