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pochette|pɒˈʃɛt|
[Fr.: see pocket n.]
1. a. A small pocket.
1913W. de la Mare Peacock Pie 80 A watch..He lifted from the hook where it was ticking And crammed in his Pochette. 1949Amer. Speech XXIV. 38 The secret pockets which the conjurer is so often suspected of using are of two types, the pochette and the profonde. They differ in position and in size, the latter being the larger. 1964Punch 1 Jan. 15/1 Pochettes in the [conjuror's] trousers.
b. A hand-bag. Also pochette bag.
1923Weekly Dispatch 11 Mar. 15/5 When jewels are worn in the hair the vanity-bag becomes a satin or crêpe pochette, fastened with a buckle of jewels. 1930Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 9/2 If you will make yourself pochettes to match your hats, you are adding..that extra touch of chic. 1972Times 12 May 13/6 The little pochette..slides into a bigger bag. 1973Country Life 1 Feb. 302/3 A shiny PVC coat and a great flat pochette, slung on a handy shoulder strap. 1976Evening Post (Nottingham) 16 Dec. 10/4 You can even get a pochette bag with the words ‘Gold-Rush’ as a motif. 1977Times 29 Oct. 12/2 More and more men use pochettes to avoid bulging..their trousers.
2. A small violin, supposedly once carried in the pocket by French dancing-masters; = kit n.2
1889in Cent. Dict. 1976D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 28/2 It was as an instrument for dancing that the small rebec survived as the kit or pochette into the eighteenth century. |