Meanings
nounpochette (plural pochettes)
plural pochettes
- A small handbag shaped like an envelope.
No sooner did the Thief of Robin’s Castle spy the valuable pipe wrought with jasmine and amber, than he clapped it into his pochette and was off with it before the old Doubter had finished expressing his first doubt.
1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter IX, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 114 - Synonym of kit violin.
Synonyms: kit violin
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of kit violin.
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Origin
- Frenchpochette“pocket”
- Englishpochette
Borrowed from French pochette (“pocket”). Doublet of pocket.
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pochette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pochette
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