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Breast pocket   /brɛst pˈɑkət/   Listen
Breast pocket

noun
1.
A pocket inside of a man's coat.






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"Breast pocket" Quotes from Famous Books



... Martinetti with the bird on his finger, kissing it, and otherwise making a fool of himself. He finished by actually putting it away inside his coat in a kind of breast pocket, I should imagine. ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison

... thousand francs crackled pleasantly in my breast pocket, and when I finally took leave of Monsieur Aristide Fournier and his charming wife, I was ...
— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... I got out of the automatic machine was from you," said the pilot, taking it from his breast pocket. "I shall have it framed when ...
— In Midsummer Days and Other Tales • August Strindberg

... man, about the middle height, with an old cap on his head, and wearing a grey hunting suit much the worse for wear (almost falling to pieces, in fact), a digger's scarf knotted round his waist, a knife in his belt, and "a bosom friend," a revolver, sticking out of the breast pocket of his coat; his feet, which were very small, were bare, except for some dilapidated moccasins made of horse hide. The marvel was how his clothes hung together, and on him. The scarf round his waist ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird

... picked up a woman's comb. It was a tortoise-shell, and bright with some fanciful ornamentation. Without a moment's hesitation Aristides pocketed it as the natural property of M'liss. A pocketbook containing a few old letters in the breast pocket of one of the blue shirts was transferred to that of Aristides with the same coolness and sentiment ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte


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