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Definition of Patch pocket
1. Noun. A flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment.
Definition of Patch pocket
1. Noun. A pocket made of a piece of fabric by sewing it onto the outside of a garment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patch Pocket
Literary usage of Patch pocket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit and District Courts of the United by Lorenzo Sawyer, United States District Court (Nevada), United States District Court (Oregon) (1882)
"He goes on to describe the mode of making two kinds of pockets, one of which has
been called the patch-pocket, and the other the inside, or hanging pocket. ..."
2. Reports of Patent Cases: Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1883)
"He goes on to describe the mode of making two kinds of pockets, one of which has
been called the patch-pocket, and the other the inside, or hanging pocket. ..."
3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Flannel fell 65 36. Basting canvas in jacket 72 37. Padding re-ver 73 38.
Making pocket for coat; patch pocket 74 39. Padding under part of collar 76. ..."
4. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"In 1787, in the will of Hannah Lord of Ipswich are named dark calico pockets,
white dimity pockets, a patch pocket, a pair of pockets, left each to some ..."
5. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"... baste to pocket and stitch. Proceed as with other pocket. 2. patch pocket.— (1)
Before placing the pocket, stitch a piece of one-quarter-inch linen ..."
6. The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"On the new coat the patch pocket was retained only in appearance, the pocket
actually being on the inside. It is not known to most Americans that the ..."
7. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"... they were usually unsightly bulges, but on the new coat the patch-pocket is
retained only in appearance, the pocket actually being on the inside. ..."
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