Cot or crib? (Re: Harry at the Dursleys)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118474


Carol earlier:
> > So a cot *is* what Americans call a crib (a child's bed with 
slide down railings). The portable baby bed would be a bassinette, or
at least that's what it was called when I had occasion to think about
the matter. <snip>
> 
> 
> wisteria53 (UK with 3 children): Cots v cribs
> I never used the word crib - the portable one you're describing 
> sounds like a carrycot or a Moses basket.

Carol again:
Anyone here familiar with nineteenth-century English poetry? Here's
the beginning of Coleridge's "Aeolian Harp," where "cot" equals "cottage":

My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is
To sit beside our Cot, our Cot o'ergrown
With white-flower'd Jasmin, and the broad-leav'd Myrtle . . . .

Picture Coleridge and his bride sitting beside a baby bed "o'ergrown"
with flowers, and baby Harry lying or standing in his little cottage.

Oh, the English language!

Carol, who thinks "Moses basket" is a fine term for a bassinette,
especially as it's readily intelligible to anyone with a smattering of
biblical knowledge