Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A narrow piece of cloth sewed above the opening of a pocket, in a garment, and hanging over it like a small flounce.
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Examples
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If anything digestible is found in an overcoat pocket the exasperating rodents do not enter by the obvious pocket-flap, but CHEW their way in from the outside.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq
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Fanny pulled her tin of English "Brasso" from a pocket-flap, and began to rub a lamp.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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Pope always reminds us of an injured and pouting hero of Lilliput, 'doing well to be angry' under the gourd of a pocket-flap, or squealing out his griefs from the centre of an empty snuff-box; Swift is a man, nay, monster of misanthropy.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Pope always reminds us of an injured and pouting hero of Lilliput, 'doing well to be angry' under the gourd of a pocket-flap, or squealing out his griefs from the centre of an empty snuff-box; Swift is a man, nay, monster of misanthropy.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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The dresses are a perfect blaze of colour, and there is not a pocket-flap or a scrap of lace that has not been made according to Egg's drawings to the quarter of an inch.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 Charles Dickens 1841
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After a moment’s thought, she gently pressed the pocket-flap closed, where the fuzzy-hooks held it shut.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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After a moment’s thought, she gently pressed the pocket-flap closed, where the fuzzy-hooks held it shut.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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