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Pocketbook

noun

Your personal financial means.

A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money. Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet.

Pocket-sized paperback book. Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition.

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse.

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"Pocketbook" Quotes from Famous Books

... is any likelihood of it?" demanded Mr. Damon. "Bless my pocketbook! If I thought so I'd ...

— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton

... the fellow mean by coming to the city with only ten dollars in his pocketbook?" he muttered. "It's a regular imposition. It wasn't worth taking. Here I am, stranded in the country, and my ticket of no value, for only ten dollars! I should like to see my rural friend's wo-begone look when he discovers the loss of his ...

— The Erie Train Boy • Horatio Alger

... regarding the whole affair. I disliked the check with Colton's name upon it; I should have much preferred the cash; but cash, it seemed, could not be had without considerable delay, and with that bank examiner's visit imminent every moment of time was valuable. I folded the check, put it in my pocketbook, and, hastily scribbling a receipt in pencil at the bottom of Colton's note, replaced the latter in the envelope and handed it to ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... hesitation Mr. Bellingham took a handful of bank notes from his pocketbook, and the exchange was made. At all costs he must preserve his little Hyacinth from shame. Now she need never know. With a forced smile he bowed Jasper out, placed the packet in his safe ...

— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne

... had resided during centuries, without any apprehension that he should be opposed by some alderman of London, whom the electors had never seen before the day of nomination, and whose chief title to their favour was a pocketbook full of bank notes. But a great nobleman, who had an estate of fifteen or twenty thousand pounds a year, and who commanded two or three boroughs, would no longer be able to put his younger son, his younger brother, his man of business, into Parliament, or to earn a garter ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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