reticule
Example Sentences
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She dispensed intelligence and irony as if each were fresh herbs in a reticule she kept tied to the belt of her dress.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2020
The first lady, “caught up what silver she could crowd into her old-fashioned reticule, and then jumped into the chariot with her servant girl Sukey, and Daniel Carroll, who took charge of them,” Jennings wrote.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018
Before the quartet exited my field of vision, I saw the husband bounding in pursuit of the three women, yelping a bit and waving the reticule in the air.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2018
Pressing back on the D-Pad kicks my speeder into a sharp turn, and I'm facing back toward the battle, the closest walker covered in a crackling blue light in the center of my aiming reticule.
From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2015
It chattered excitedly as Cassiopeia fed it petites madeleines out of her reticule.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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