Definition of "pass-book" []

• A book in which a merchant or trader makes an entry of goods sold on credit to a customer, for the information of the customer. (noun)
• A bank-book. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But if he did not ask to see her pass-book, neither did she see his: he would not have her troubling her head, he said, about their general expenditure."
• ""Ercole Paraio," he said huskily, putting his pass-book down."
• "Then she came back to the desk and performed a brief _pas seul_ on the shining smooth cover of my pass-book."