belt purse
English
19th century image of Sikh military men; the man on the left is wearing a belt purse
Alternative forms
- belt-purse
- beltpurse
Noun
belt purse (plural belt purses)
- 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,
- 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,
- 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,
- 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,
- Such pouches were also kept inside a belt-purse as a handy way to store coins.
- 1874, Harry Lemon, “Dismal Dan’s Big Diamonds: A Christmas Story,” Cape Monthly Magazine, Volume 9, No. 54, December 1874, p. 373,
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