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Pocketbook

noun

Your personal financial means.

A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money. Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet.

Pocket-sized paperback book. Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition.

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse.

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"Pocketbook" Quotes from Famous Books

... Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... newspapers into pieces and threw them into his waste-basket. On his writing-table were forty or fifty closely written pages of manuscript. In his pocketbook were sixteen hundred dollars, and a document indicating a credit for a very much larger amount at the United Bank of New York, in favor of Merton Ware and another. The remainder of his belongings were negligible. He stood at the window and looked out across the city, the city into whose labyrinths ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... disposed of the treasure against future molestation. He cut open one of the cushions of the coach, taking out part of the filling, and in the cavity thus made stored everything of value, including his own watch and pocketbook; then the filling was replaced and the hole smoothed to a ...

— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore

... Styles winced. Evidently he was one who did not like to have his pocketbook touched. But then he ...

— The Mansion of Mystery - Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective • Chester K. Steele

... and produced his pocketbook. His wife snatched it out of his hand, opened it, and drew out some bank-notes, put them back again immediately, and, closing the pocketbook, stepped across the room to my poor mother's little walnut-wood ...

— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins

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