belt purse

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English

19th century image of Sikh military men; the man on the left is wearing a belt purse

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Noun

belt purse (plural belt purses)

  1. A small purse worn against the body, attached to a belt.
    • 1874, Harry Lemon, “Dismal Dan’s Big Diamonds: A Christmas Story,” Cape Monthly Magazine, Volume 9, No. 54, December 1874, p. 373,[1]
      I had wrapped the stones in a strong piece of soft leather, which I had stitched inside my belt purse.
    • 1959, Jefferson Cooper, Captain Seadog, New York: Pocket Books, Chapter Twelve, p. 155,[2]
      His hand touched the belt purse that held his unsigned commission as he swung off the rope ladder to step into the smallboat.
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, Chapter Five, p. 374,[3]
      From his beltpurse he took the carved white bones with black dots on them.
    • 2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng & Will McLean, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2nd edition, Chapter 6, p. 141,[4]
      Such pouches were also kept inside a belt-purse as a handy way to store coins.

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