pocketbook
/ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/ nom C2En français : livre de poche, pocket
- 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.
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Dans la bibliothèque
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.
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.”
“Now, then,” said Villefort, placing the letter in his pocketbook, “I must have another!”
“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.
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