Meaning of sabretache | Babel Free

Definitions

A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.”

“1896, Letter from Winston Churchill, on Army duty in India, to his mother Two years in Europe—with a campaign thrown in—would I think qualify me to be allowed to beat my sword into a paper cutter & my sabretache into an election address.”

“A hand-stitched black sabretache rested on the chair beside her, together with a wide cartwheel hat of gold straw, its crown encircled by a thin black velvet ribbon which tied at the back in a short bow.”

CEFR level