reticule

Lady Constance reached into her reticule and extracted the same square, cream-colored envelope that Penelope had spotted on the mail tray the previous day.

She reached into her reticule and drew out a folded letter.

But when she saw the small, familiar packet that Miss Mortimer removed from her reticule, she understood.

“Well, Mrs. Minturn just sat there with her hands in a bunch until Mrs. Cranston reached down for her reticule, which was just a whisker away from me. She handed her some money.”

Gathering “what silver she could crowd into her old-fashioned reticule”—a handbag with a drawstring—she “then Jumped into the chariot with her servant girl Sukey,” said Paul Jennings.