Definition of "reticule" [ret•i•cule]

• A drawstring handbag or purse. (noun)
• A reticle. (noun)

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• ""I have received a dispatch," Mrs. Bundercombe announced, drawing a letter with pride from an article that I believe she called her reticule, "signed by the secretary of the Women's League of Freedom, asking me to address their members at a meeting to be held at Leeds to-night.""
• "Stuck to the bottom of the reticule was a small key."
• "In her reticule was the paper on which he had written the address of the Art Students 'League, and, as an afterthought, his own address."