OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12322

sabretache

/ˈsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˌtæʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.
1896, Letter from Winston Churchill, on Army duty in India, to his mother Two years in Europe—with a campaign thrown in—would I think qualify me to be allowed to beat my sword into…
There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.
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