sabretache
English edit
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Etymology edit
French sabretache, from German Säbeltasche, from Säbel (“sabre”) and Tasche (“pocket”).
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Noun edit
sabretache (plural sabretaches)
- (historical) A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.
- 1877, John Doyle, A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava:
- 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.
- 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 32:
- 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.
Translations edit
hanging cavalry pouch
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Säbeltasche.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabretache f (plural sabretaches)
Further reading edit
- “sabretache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.