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Word entry · 10 letters

pocketbook

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"Purse"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/Part of speech nounSorted bcekkoooptStarts with PEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (POCKETBOOK).

Definitions

  1. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

Word origin

1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.

Used in a sentence

  • The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
  • The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…]
  • "I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."

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