reticule

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Reticule, not ridicule, when a little bag of net-work is meant.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

The Spinster's Reticule, for so the name ran, came forth with no blare of journalistic trumpets challenging approval from the towers of critical sagacity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various

Reticule, ret′i-kūl, Reticle, ret′i-kl, n. a little network bag: a lady's workbag: an attachment to a telescope consisting of a network of lines ruled on glass.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

With her Reticule loaded full of "To Let" Clippings, she hot-footed from Street to Street.

From People You Know by Ade, George