pocketbook
/ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/ noun C2- A purse or handbag.
- A wallet for paper money.
- One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
- A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art). · The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
- A romance novel published as a small paperback.
Plural pocketbooks
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“Now, then,” said Villefort, placing the letter in his pocketbook, “I must have another!”
Joe was to become capable very soon of turning out pictures that old gentlemen with thin side-whiskers and thick pocketbooks would sandbag one another in his studio for the privilege of buying.
“Be easy, my dear boy; they will come in due season; it is only a question of how much shall be charged for them.” Morcerf then, with that delighted philosophy which believes that nothing is impossible to a full purse or well-lined pocketbook, supped, went to bed, slept soundly, and dreamed he was racing all over Rome at Carnival time in a coach with six horses.
The moment you arrive you will send a wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, in my name, to say that if he finds the pocketbook which I have dropped he is to send it by registered post to Baker Street.”
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