belt purse

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1. A small purse worn against the body, attached to a belt.

   From his beltpurse he took the carved white bones with black dots on them.

   1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, page 374

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   I had wrapped the stones in a strong piece of soft leather, which I had stitched inside my belt purse.

   1874 December, Harry Lemon, “Dismal Dan’s Big Diamonds: A Christmas Story”, in Cape Monthly Magazine, volume 9, number 54, page 373

   His hand touched the belt purse that held his unsigned commission as he swung off the rope ladder to step into the smallboat.

   1959, Jefferson Cooper, chapter 12, in Captain Seadog, New York: Pocket Books, page 155

   Such pouches were also kept inside a belt-purse as a handy way to store coins.

   2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will McLean, chapter 6, in Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, 2nd edition, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, page 141