pocket-book
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pocket-book (plural pocket-books)
- Alternative form of pocketbook
- 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 90:
- She knows that she is being gazed on with malicious eyes, her dress mentally criticised, her movements commented on, her pocket-book measured and sneered at.