Pochette

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small handbag shaped like an envelope.

    "No sooner did the Thief of Robin’s Castle spy the valuable pipe wrought with jasmine and amber, than he clapped it into his pochette and was off with it before the old Doubter had finished expressing his first doubt."

  2. 2
    Synonym of kit violin.

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kit violin

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"No sooner did the Thief of Robin’s Castle spy the valuable pipe wrought with jasmine and amber, than he clapped it into his pochette and was off with it before the old Doubter had finished expressing his first doubt."

Etymology

Borrowed from French pochette (“pocket”). Doublet of pocket.

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