sabretache

Definition

A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.

Etymology

From French sabretache, from German Säbeltasche, from Säbel (“sabre”) and Tasche (“pocket”).

Example Sentences

• "There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched."
• "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 a paper cutter & my sabretache into an election address."
• "A hand-stitched black sabretache rested on the chair beside her, together with a wide cartwheel hat of gold straw, its crown encircled by a thin black velvet ribbon which tied at the back in a short bow."