sabretache
(ˈsæbətɑːʃ, -æ-)
Also sabretasch(e, -tash.
[a. F. sabretache, ad. G. säbeltasche, f. säbel sabre, sable n.2 + tasche pocket.]
A leather satchel suspended on the left side by long straps from the sword-belt of a cavalry officer.
A MS. letter of 1812 has the word in the corrupt form zappadash. The Dicts. incorrectly give (ˈseɪbətɑːʃ, -æ-).
| 1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 167 A pouch belt and a sabre-tache. 1841 Lever C. O'Malley xv, As strapping a fellow as ever carried a sabretasch. 1858 Sir E. Cust Ann. Wars p. viii, The Volume has been so managed that it may not be too much for the pocket, or the sabretash. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vii. i. (1872) II. 237 He is withal a kind of soldier..a man of many sabre-tashes. 1901 Scotsman 7 Nov. 5/8 The King has been graciously pleased to approve the abolition of the sabre tache. |