Definition of Pocketbooks

1. Noun. (plural of pocketbook) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pocketbooks

1. pocketbook [n] - See also: pocketbook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketbooks

pocket pistols
pocket protector
pocket protectors
pocket rat
pocket rockets
pocket square
pocket trumpet
pocket trumpets
pocket veto
pocket vetos
pocket watch
pocket watches
pocketable
pocketbook
pocketbooks (current term)
pocketcomb
pocketed
pocketed bat
pocketed calculus
pocketed freetail bat
pocketer
pocketers
pocketful
pocketfuls
pocketing
pocketknife
pocketknives
pocketless
pocketlike

Literary usage of Pocketbooks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making More Money in Storekeeping: By W. R. Hotchkin by William Rowland Hotchkin (1917)
"Hearts Not pocketbooks at Christmas The whole Christmas celebration is inspired by the heart. Once every year the whole civilized world spends its money ..."

2. Official Catalogue by United States Centennial Commission (1876)
"Fancy feather goods, dressing case, work boxes, pocketbooks, satchels, etc. ... Fancy leather goods, pocketbooks, cigar and match cases, bankers' cases, ..."

3. International Exhibition, 1876: Official Catalogue by United States Centennial Commission (1876)
"pocketbooks, satchels, and tancy leather articles. F 70. 255 Pa. ... Fancy leather goods, pocketbooks, cigar and match cases, bankers' cases, dressing cases ..."

4. Report by United States Industrial Commission (1901)
"... not popular with the people and yet the people buy their entire wants in those stores, simply because they look after their own personal pocketbooks. ..."

5. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1904)
"FANCY LEATHER GOODS Since the year 1870 there has been an enormous growth in New York State of the manufacture of pocketbooks, chatelaine bags, ..."

6. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"It is a matter which appeals not only to the hearts but to the pockets and the pocketbooks of every man, woman, and child in this State; and if the women ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"We shall have to do principally with the pocketbooks— those queer little volumes of matrimonial memoranda to which we have before referred ; for in them is ..."

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