étui

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French étui.

Noun

étui (plural étuis)

  1. A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles.
    • 1791 June 1, John Ireland, “The Harlot’s Progress. Plate I.”, in Hogarth Illustrated, volume I, : J & J Boydell , →OCLC, pages 4–5:
      From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.
    • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, p. 26 n:
      Secondly, glass bottles are useless: the drugs should be stowed away in tin or wooden boxes, such as the natives of the country use, and when a phial is required, it must be fitted into an étui of some kind.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 13:
      And what about that comb in a real-leather etui, what about, what about it – oh, it would get fouled up in no time and it would take an hour of work to remove the grime from between its tight teeth [...].
    • 1995, Thomas Mann, translated from the 1925 German by John E. Woods, "The Magic Mountain", Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, p. 46:
      And from a buff leather etui monogrammed in silver, he extracted one of his Maria Mancinis-- a lovely specimen from the top of the box, flattened on just one side the way he especially liked it .

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French

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle French étui, from Old French estui (“case, sheath”), of uncertain origin.

Possibly a derivative of Old French estuier (“keep, hold”), itself possibly from Vulgar Latin *studiāre, from Latin studium; or, more likely, of Germanic origin, related to Middle High German stūche (“cupping glass”). Compare Occitan estug, Catalan estoig, Spanish estuche, Portuguese estojo.

Pronunciation

Noun

étui m (plural étuis)

  1. case (for glasses, cigars, soap, a viola)
  2. holster (for a gun)
  3. cover (for an umbrella)
  4. cartridge (of a bullet)

Descendants

  • → Dutch: etui
  • → English: étui
  • → Esperanto: -ujo
  • → Galician: estui
  • → German: Etui
  • → Ido: etuyo
  • → Polish: etui
  • → Romanian: etui
  • → Swedish: etui

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