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asmallcontainerformoney, usually used by a woman (尤指女性使用的)零钱包,小钱包Coprid/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesContainers for carrying personal possessions - attaché case
- baggage
- baggage allowance
- billfold
- bindle
- briefcase
- excess baggage
- garment bag
- grip
- hand luggage
- handbag
- hatbox
- pannier
- pillbox
- pocketbook
- rucksack
- sack
- saddlebag
- satchel
- schoolbag
See more results » (Definition ofchange pursefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- All she would need would be her little case for tickets, and her change purse, and her evening cloak had pockets.
- She was fumbling in her change purse as he turned back to shut the door.
- The New Yorker continued to set stiff in his chair, one hand on his watch and one on the pocket where his change purse was that he'd tried to pay his share of the taxicabs out of.
- Watch a Frenchman count his coppers, or an Englishman that carries his in a change purse and talks about pounds but really thinks in shillings.
Examplesofchange pursechange purse The cover photograph, which can not be reproduced in a family newspaper, is ingenious -- a bright-pinkchangepurse, unclasped, viewed from above.FromPlain Dealer Before the epiphany, she kept that piece of paper in her purse for months, even when she would change purses.FromCNN Because of events during the talk the interviewer reached for herchangepurseto find and offer another quarter.FromProject Gutenberg She was fumbling in herchangepurseas he turned back to shut the door.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/change-purse## |