pochette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pochette (“pocket”). Doublet of pocket.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒˈʃɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /poʊˈʃɛt/

Noun

pochette (plural pochettes)

1. A small handbag shaped like an envelope.
   • 1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter IX, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 114:

     No sooner did the Thief of Robin’s Castle spy the valuable pipe wrought with jasmine and amber, than he clapped it into his pochette and was off with it before the old Doubter had finished expressing his first doubt.

2. Synonym of kit violin.

Anagrams

• chopette

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French pochete (“small purse, small bag”), diminutive (with suffix -ete) of puche (“purse, bag”), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag, pouch”). Reinforced by Old Norse puki, poki (“bag, pocket”), from Old Northern French. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pohha, pocca (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”). Compare English pocket, derived from an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʃɛt/

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Noun

pochette f (plural pochettes)

1. (small) pocket
2. sleeve (of e.g. a CD)
3. clutch bag

Verb

pochette

1. inflection of pocheter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person imperative

Descendants

• → English: pochette
• → Japanese: ポシェット (poshetto)
• → Portuguese: pochete
• → Turkish: poşet

Further reading

• “pochette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012