portemonnaies

This was the ordinary rate when gentlemen skilled in transferring other people's watches and portemonnaies from the pockets of their owners to their own, or when others who had devoted their talents to demonstrating practically the enormous power of the jimmy and wedge originated and carried out by themselves the operations peculiar to those classes of industries.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

The girl was enchanted with what she saw, but her joy was chiefly in the trinkets that filled the glass counter, -- the necklaces and bracelets, the shell hairpins and mother-of-pearl portemonnaies.

Nautilus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Such elegant fans and card cases and mother-of-pearl _portemonnaies_ bound with silver and steel!

A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Many of these gentlemen carried little portemonnaies, which hung on their jewelled fingers by tiny chains.

Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? 1870

In contrast to these, there was a number of small peddlers, selling pins, cravats, and portemonnaies, who were loudly crying their wares.

Jack 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868

As their trade prospered, they were not dishonest; and, when any of their customers forgot their portemonnaies at the shop, they always returned them.

The Clique of Gold ��mile Gaboriau 1852

a grand harvest for the pickpockets, who carry off the pocket-books and portemonnaies.

New Tabernacle Sermons 1867