sabretache

plural sabretaches · alternative sabretash

1. historicalA leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.

   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.

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   There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.

   1877, John Doyle, A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava

   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.

   1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 32