sabretache

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.”

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