Carrying a pouncet-box was a common custom among the upper classes in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Pouncet-box
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And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box.
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1866, Septimus Piesse, Pouncet Box and Pomander, entry in Notes and Queries: 3rd Series, Volume 9: January—June 1866, page 392, The pouncet box mentioned by Shakespeare in the Midsummer Night's Dream, I have always considered as a similar article to the pomander worn by "fashionable people" in the time of Elizabeth, containing powdered perfumery, such as musk, civet, and various spices.
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1894 (1819), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Ginn & Company, page 364, " […] besides what is broken and spoiled among their rude hands, such as my pouncet-box and silver crisping-tongs."
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