reticule

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Stuck to the bottom of the reticule was a small key.

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  1. noun A drawstring handbag or purse.
  2. noun A reticle.

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  • She had not a stitch of a personal belonging in her room with her, having left her trunk in Moreton's carriage and her reticule is the inn parlor. —  Mary Balogh - Daring Masquerade.html
  • The best way to avoid confusion is to use different weapons: a pistol will produce only a small reticule, a shotgun a much wider one, making it easier to distinguish. —  Latest from PALGN
  • One slight problem arises in that it's easy to lose track of which aiming reticule is yours, with only a subtle colour trail to distinguish between either player. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Stuck to the bottom of the reticule was a small key. —  Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
  • Their slow and languid gait, and the trifling services which they impose, betoken only apathetic indolence; but should the slave not promptly obey, should he even fail to divine the meaning of their gestures, or looks, in an instant they are armed with a formidable whip; it is no longer the arm which cannot sustain the weight of a shawl or a reticule--it is no longer the form which but feebly sustains itself. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
 

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  1. French réticule, from Latin rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net.

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  1. from French réticule, a net for the hair, a reticule, from Latin reticulum, neuter, also reticulus, masculine, a little net, reticule, double diminutive of rete, a net: see rete. Doublet of reticle.
 

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/ˈrɛtɪkjul/
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