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Wallet   /wˈɔlət/   Listen
noun
Wallet  n.  
1.
A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. "(His hood) was trussed up in his walet."
2.
A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
3.
Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh."





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"Wallet" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned Dennet marching away, while Ambrose obeyed a summons from good-natured Mistress Headley to have his wallet filled with bread and cheese like those of ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... sufficiently familiar with modern pessimism, at least as a speculation; for I cannot call to mind that any of its present votaries have sealed their faith by assuming the rags and the bowl of the mendicant Bhikku, or the cloak and the wallet of the Cynic. The obstacles placed in the way of sturdy vagrancy by an unphilosophical police have, perhaps, proved too formidable for philosophical consistency. We also know modern speculative optimism, ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... fingered through his wallet, brought forth his I.D. card. Rostoff handed him his tequila, took the card and examined ...
— Medal of Honor • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... into a jig, supposedly to keep his feet warm, in reality because he could not stand quietly while Dannie pulled off his mittens, got out and unstrapped his wallet, and carefully counted out the money. "Is that all ye ...
— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter
... country along with his companions, Loki, Thjalfi, and Roska. They had not gone far before they saw before them an immense forest, through which they wandered all day. Thjalfi was of all men the swiftest of foot. He bore Thor's wallet, but the forest was a bad place for finding anything eatable to stow in it. When it became dark, they searched on all sides for a place where they might pass the night, and at last came to a very large hall with an entrance that ...
— The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson • Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson


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