pocket-book

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See also: pocket book and pocketbook

English

Noun

pocket-book (plural pocket-books)

  1. 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.