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Definition of Pocketbooks
1. pocketbook [n] - See also: pocketbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketbooks
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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