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Wallet   /wˈɔlət/   Listen
noun
Wallet  n.  
1.
A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. "(His hood) was trussed up in his walet."
2.
A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
3.
Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh."





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"Wallet" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was not permitted to answer the charge against me, but was at once consigned to a cell, having been first searched and despoiled of all my possessions. Among them was my knife and a pocket revolver I generally carried, also my purse, my wallet with all my private papers, and my handbag. Both wallet and handbag were locked; they demanded the keys, thinking I had them hidden on my person, but I said they could find them for themselves, the truth being the locks were on ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... steamed into the village, which was the destination of both, Mr. Jarvis soliloquized, as he caressed his wallet pocket: ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... said, And from his wallet drew a human hand, Shrivelled and dry and black. And fitting, as he spake, A taper in his hold, Pursued: "A murderer on the stake had died. I drove the vulture from his limbs and lopt The hand that did the murder, and drew up The tendon strings to close ...
— Strange Pages from Family Papers • T. F. Thiselton Dyer
... and quilted leather, and, thereafter, coifed hauberk and chausses, with wide sword-belt clamped with broad plates of silver and studs of gold, until my Beltane stood up armed in shining mail from head to foot. Then brought Ambrose a wallet, wherein were six gold pieces, and put ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol
... forsooth," we say; "what lack of sense! Does the Giant Caranco know the good word of the Gentle Folk whose song brings luck? Can the Giant Caranco tell the tale that only the fairies know? Has the Giant Caranco those things in his wallet which are loved of lads and maids? Of a surety, no! Was ever ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett


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