walletn.

Brit.

/ˈwɒlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈwɑlət/,

/ˈwɔlət/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s walet, Middle English wallett(e, 1500s walett, wallyt, 1500s, 1600s, 1800s dialect wallat.

Etymology: Of obscure origin; the stress waˈlet (beside ˈwalet ) in Chaucer is unfavourable to the current theory that the word is a metathesis of watel wattle n.²Possibly < Old French or Anglo-Norman *walet , which might be derived < Germanic *wall- to go on pilgrimage (wall v.³) or *wall- to roll up (see under wall v.¹

(a) A bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc., esp. on a journey either on foot or on horseback; a pilgrim's scrip, a knapsack, a pedlar's pack, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > used by pilgrims, beggars, etc.

scripc1300

shripc1300

walletc1405

sherpe1426

wantel1536

bundle handkerchief1884

turkey1893

bindle1925

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 686 His walet [lay] biforn hym in his lappe Bretful of pardon comen from Rome al hoot.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 681 But hood for Iolitee, wered he noon For it was trussed vp in his walet [rhyme Iet].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 514/1 Walette, seek, or poke, sistarcia.

1506–7 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 372 Item, for ane wallat to John of Bute xij d.

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A^v Within his wallet, were meates good and fyne.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlvii^v Take hede..what maner of people resort and come to thy house..and specially if they bring with them..bottelles, bagges, wallettes, or busshell pokes.

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 461 Another brought two goslynges..She brought them in a wallet.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Yet haue I ensample to gader the smale crommes, and fullyn my walet of tho that fallen from the borde amonge the smale houndes.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith xiii. 10 She..delyuered the head of Holofernes vnto hir mayden, and bad hir put it in hir walett [Gk. εἰς τὴν πήραν τῶν βρωμάτων αὐτῆς, L. in peram suam].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Husbandry necessaries:..the smaller sort be these,..Sacks, Wallets, Bottels, [etc.].

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B4 Neither..the Switzers blistred Cod-peece, nor the Danish sleeue, sagging downe like a Welsh wallet.

1617 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 292 For makinge of a wallet to put the challenc and a bottle in, 1 d.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxvii. 62 Their Childe they carry in a Wallet about their necke, ordinarily vnder one arme, because it may sucke when it will.

c1670 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 39 A wallet to cari books.

1712 Spectator No. 289. ⁋9 Having looked about him for some time, he [a Dervise] enter'd into a long Gallery, where he laid down his Wallet, and spread his Carpet, in order to repose himself upon it.

a1721 M. Prior Cupid turned Plowman 2 A rustic wallet o'er his shoulders ty'd.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 272 With her scanty wardrobe, packed up in a wallet, she set out on her journey on foot.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 57 My pond'rous Pack upo' the ground, I carelessly had flung; A wallet green, wi' straps fast bound.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xii. 155 The old man had forgotten a kind of wallet which contained the light burden he had to carry.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxii I have heard he came up to London himself as a young man with only his tragedy in his wallet.

1904 R. Bridges Demeter 592 Approach him with a gift: this little wallet. (Giving a little bag of seeds.)

1914 Miss. Rec. U.F. Ch. Jan. 3/2 The Highlands, where there is no more welcome visitor than the colporteur with his wallet of healthy and inspiring literature.

(b) to brew in a bottle and bake in a wallet: (perhaps) to attempt enterprises beyond one's means.

ΚΠ

c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne B iv These men the whiche doo brewe in a botell and bake in a walet.

b. spec. A bag having the opening in the middle and a receptacle at each end.Some of the instances above may belong to this specific sense. The wallet ‘with two pouches in it’ was probably originally slung across the horse, or over the shoulder of the pedestrian.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > having opening in middle

wallet1528

1528 [see sense 1c]. 1656 [see sense 1c].

1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. A4^v Being thus early up, I timely met with a long Purse lying neglected in the Street, whose entrance was on the middle like a Wallat.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Wallet, a kind of Bag with two Pouches to it.

1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 141 The wallet is almost unknown even in farmsteads now: it is a kind of long bag closed at each end, but with a slit in the centre for the insertion of things.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Wallet or Wally,..As a hatting term it is a workbag with the entrance in the centre and made up at each end.

c. figurative.The fable here alluded to (Phædrus iv. x) says that Jupiter gave to every man two bags, one of which, containing his own faults, hangs at his back, and the other, containing those of his fellows, hangs at his breast.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil deed > [noun] > bag containing

wallet1528

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > state of having moral defects > moral defect

lackc1200

vice1338

default1340

fault1377

infirmity1382

wallet1528

flaw1586

failing1590

leak1597

delinquency1606

tare?1608

shortcominga1687

1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 233/1 If we wold once tourne oure wallette..and the bagge with other folkes faultes cast at oure backe, and caste the bagge that bereth our own faultes..before vs at our brest.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 60 But sure the wallet them beguiles, that hanges behinde their backe, And better others faultes they see, than what themselues doe lacke.

1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 15 They looke not into their owne doings: they cast that end of the wallet behinde them, wherein their owne faultes are wrapped.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 167* Neither of both..were willing enough to look into the other end of the wallet, and to examine throughly their own spirits.

d. A beggar's bag. † to bear the wallet [= French porter la besace] to be a beggar.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]

thigc1300

begc1384

crave1393

to go a-begged1393

prowl1530

to go (or have been) a begging1535

maund?1536

to bear the wallet1546

cant1567

prog1579

to turn to bag and wallet1582

skelder1602

maunder1611

strike1618

emendicate1623

mendicate1623

to go a-gooding1646

mump1685

shool1736

cadge1819

to stand pad1841

stag1860

bum1870

schnorr1875

panhandle1894

pling1915

stem1924

nickel-and-dime1942

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's bag

wallet1546

1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.vi Bringynge them vp other to beare walletes other els yf they be sturdi to stuffe prisons.

1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) v. sig. Nvi And se thy goodes they not decrease but may augmented be, Least in thy age the wallet come.

1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. C1 Thou art likewise to Giue way to any of vs that haue borne all the Offices of the Wallet before thee.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 6) 405 Needs must hee beare a wallet, and die a beggar.

1622 F. Bacon To King in Wks. (1874) XIX. 386 Pity me so far, as I that have borne a bag be not now in my age forced in effect to bear a wallet.

1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 30 Without House or Land, or so much as a Wallet to go a begging with.

1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 33 They coyned Meddals with the Kings Picture, on the one hand a Wallet, and a Dish on the other, with this Inscription, Faithful to God and the King, even to bear the Wallet.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 237 So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back He cast.

1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley ix. 135 Without a crust in my wallet, as beggars usually have.

1836 C. Hooton Adventures Bilberry Thurland I. vi. 124 Their appetites were now recovered, and the contributions of their collected wallets were found insufficient for the whole.

1879 G. F. Maclear Celts viii. 125 Itinerant beggars, who went about with wallets, were not regarded with favour.

figurative.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 140 Time hath (my Lord) a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts almes for obliuion.

e. A lawyer's bag. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > [noun] > lawyer's bag

buckram1607

buckram-bag1611

wallet1645

green bag1660

blue bag1788

red bag1845

brief-bag1848

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 A meer and arrant petti-fogger, who lately was so hardy, as to lay aside his buckram wallet, and make himself a fool in Print.

f. Heraldry. (See quot. c1828.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of domestic items > [noun] > pilgrim's pouch

walletc1828

c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Wallet, a scrip, or pilgrim's pouch.

†2. transferred. Something (in an animal's body) protuberant and swagging. Cf. wattle n.² Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > protuberance

bunchc1325

walleta1616

bosset1859

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 46 Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres, Dew-lapt, like Buls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh?

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 137 Since the great Bulk or Wallet of these Intestines must incline and swag towards the Diaphragm.

3. A flat bag, usually of leather, closed by a flap fastened with a button or clasp, or secured by a band. Originally U.S.

a. A pocket-book for holding paper money without folding, or documents.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > wallet > [noun]

pocketbook1670

reader1718

dummy1785

wallet1843

insider1846

porte-monnaie1850

skin1856

bill-holder1890

bill-book1895

billfold1895

poke1908

billfolder1909

1843 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 28 Oct. 58/2 Our several borrowings were thrust into a wallet which was sometimes in his pocket, sometimes in mine, as each took the turn to be paymaster.

1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wallet,..also, a pocket~book or place for keeping money about one's person.

1884 Advt. Thin Pocket Diary, for Wallet.

1888 Cassell [as ‘American’].

1913 Daily News 1 Nov. 7 The plaintiff, a diamond merchant, was carrying a wallet containing £370 in bank-notes, brilliants value £320, two necklaces.., a diamond pendant cluster, [etc.].

1914 Daily News 29 Jan. 2 He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a leather dollar wallet and examined its contents.

b. A cyclist's tool-bag.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cycling equipment

wallet1887

1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 432 The wallet, or tool-bag, is generally supplied with the machine.

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c. ‘A small kit carried by anglers,’ containing ‘thread and needles, awl, waxed ends,..a pair of small pliers, a file, etc.’ ( Cent. Dict.). ? U.S.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations as wallet book; wallet-carrying adj.; †wallet-ways adv.

ΚΠ

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 69 You may perchance thinke it improper to behold me upon thy asse hanging Wallet-wayes.

1863 J. C. Bruce (title) The Wallet~book of the Roman Wall.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 76 Men in bowler hats, hurrying And a mingling of wallet-carrying women.

C2.

wallet-bearer n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > other types of beggar

overlier1449

roger?1536

jarkman1567

Irish toyle1575

jackman1575

chamber-deacon1607

reacher1607

wallet-bearer1611

pie card1931

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > other specific personal attendants

henchmana1560

wallet-bearer1611

punkaha1613

bathing-woman1789

laquais de place1789

agterryer1824

punkah-wallah1826

famulus1837

personal assistant1910

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Besacier, the bag-bearer, or wallet-bearer of a begging, or beggarly companie.

1823 J. Gillies tr. Aristotle Rhetoric iii. ii. 372 In this way Iphicrates insulted Callias, by calling him the wallet-bearer of the goddess, instead of her torch-bearer.

wallet envelope n. an envelope with a broad flap like that of a wallet.

Draft additions September 2021

A device, application, or online service that can be used to make financial transactions electronically, and which may also store electronic forms of items such as receipts, tickets, and identity documents. Usually with modifying word, as electronic wallet, online wallet, virtual wallet, etc.digital wallet, mobile wallet: see the first element.Payments are made by drawing on funds which have been preloaded to the wallet, or by accessing stored details of a user's credit or debit card.In quot. 1982, describing a smart card (smart card n.) used for making small payments.

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1982 Financial Times 12 Nov. 37/2 The basic patent [of the smart card] goes back to six years earlier, when a certain M Roland Moreno soldered a microcircuit to a bit of plastic with the idea of making a sort of electronic wallet from which amounts could be knocked off until it was empty.

1994 Bank Syst. & Technol. Mar. 6 Sauve referred to the scheme as an ‘electronic wallet’—a kind of cyber-bank in which tokens representing previously debited funds are moved around wherever the customer wants them within an electronic framework.

2002 What Mobile Apr. (Basics section) 23/1 A virtual wallet allows credit card and other personal details to be stored securely for speedy online shopping.

2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Jan. c1/3 This volunteer army has developed military-grade encryption to make bitcoin wallets more secure and insurable.

2018 New Yorker 22 Oct. 66/2 This is different from having your crypto[currency] stolen or hacked, when it's stored in an online ‘wallet.’ That happens all the time!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wallet
释义	walletn. Brit. /ˈwɒlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈwɑlət/, /ˈwɔlət/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s walet, Middle English wallett(e, 1500s walett, wallyt, 1500s, 1600s, 1800s dialect wallat. Etymology: Of obscure origin; the stress waˈlet (beside ˈwalet ) in Chaucer is unfavourable to the current theory that the word is a metathesis of watel wattle n.²Possibly < Old French or Anglo-Norman walet , which might be derived < Germanic wall- to go on pilgrimage (wall v.³) or wall- to roll up (see under wall v.¹ 1. a. (a) A bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc., esp. on a journey either on foot or on horseback; a pilgrim's scrip, a knapsack, a pedlar's pack, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > used by pilgrims, beggars, etc. scripc1300 shripc1300 walletc1405 sherpe1426 wantel1536 bundle handkerchief1884 turkey1893 bindle1925 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol.* (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 686 His walet [lay] biforn hym in his lappe Bretful of pardon comen from Rome al hoot. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 681 But hood for Iolitee, wered he noon For it was trussed vp in his walet [rhyme Iet]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 514/1 Walette, seek, or poke, sistarcia. 1506–7 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 372 Item, for ane wallat to John of Bute xij d. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A^v Within his wallet, were meates good and fyne. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlvii^v Take hede..what maner of people resort and come to thy house..and specially if they bring with them..bottelles, bagges, wallettes, or busshell pokes. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 461 Another brought two goslynges..She brought them in a wallet. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Yet haue I ensample to gader the smale crommes, and fullyn my walet of tho that fallen from the borde amonge the smale houndes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith xiii. 10 She..delyuered the head of Holofernes vnto hir mayden, and bad hir put it in hir walett [Gk. εἰς τὴν πήραν τῶν βρωμάτων αὐτῆς, L. in peram suam]. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Husbandry necessaries:..the smaller sort be these,..Sacks, Wallets, Bottels, [etc.]. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B4 Neither..the Switzers blistred Cod-peece, nor the Danish sleeue, sagging downe like a Welsh wallet. 1617 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 292 For makinge of a wallet to put the challenc and a bottle in, 1 d. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxvii. 62 Their Childe they carry in a Wallet about their necke, ordinarily vnder one arme, because it may sucke when it will. c1670 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 39 A wallet to cari books. 1712 Spectator No. 289. ⁋9 Having looked about him for some time, he [a Dervise] enter'd into a long Gallery, where he laid down his Wallet, and spread his Carpet, in order to repose himself upon it. a1721 M. Prior Cupid turned Plowman 2 A rustic wallet o'er his shoulders ty'd. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 272 With her scanty wardrobe, packed up in a wallet, she set out on her journey on foot. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 57 My pond'rous Pack upo' the ground, I carelessly had flung; A wallet green, wi' straps fast bound. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xii. 155 The old man had forgotten a kind of wallet which contained the light burden he had to carry. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxii I have heard he came up to London himself as a young man with only his tragedy in his wallet. 1904 R. Bridges Demeter 592 Approach him with a gift: this little wallet. (Giving a little bag of seeds.) 1914 Miss. Rec. U.F. Ch. Jan. 3/2 The Highlands, where there is no more welcome visitor than the colporteur with his wallet of healthy and inspiring literature. (b) to brew in a bottle and bake in a wallet: (perhaps) to attempt enterprises beyond one's means. ΚΠ c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne B iv These men the whiche doo brewe in a botell and bake in a walet. b. spec. A bag having the opening in the middle and a receptacle at each end.Some of the instances above may belong to this specific sense. The wallet ‘with two pouches in it’ was probably originally slung across the horse, or over the shoulder of the pedestrian. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > having opening in middle wallet1528 1528 [see sense 1c]. 1656 [see sense 1c]. 1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. A4^v Being thus early up, I timely met with a long Purse lying neglected in the Street, whose entrance was on the middle like a Wallat. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Wallet, a kind of Bag with two Pouches to it. 1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 141 The wallet is almost unknown even in farmsteads now: it is a kind of long bag closed at each end, but with a slit in the centre for the insertion of things. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Wallet or Wally,..As a hatting term it is a workbag with the entrance in the centre and made up at each end. c. figurative.The fable here alluded to (Phædrus iv. x) says that Jupiter gave to every man two bags, one of which, containing his own faults, hangs at his back, and the other, containing those of his fellows, hangs at his breast. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil deed > [noun] > bag containing wallet1528 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > state of having moral defects > moral defect lackc1200 vice1338 default1340 fault1377 infirmity1382 wallet1528 flaw1586 failing1590 leak1597 delinquency1606 tare?1608 shortcominga1687 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 233/1 If we wold once tourne oure wallette..and the bagge with other folkes faultes cast at oure backe, and caste the bagge that bereth our own faultes..before vs at our brest. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 60 But sure the wallet them beguiles, that hanges behinde their backe, And better others faultes they see, than what themselues doe lacke. 1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 15 They looke not into their owne doings: they cast that end of the wallet behinde them, wherein their owne faultes are wrapped. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 167* Neither of both..were willing enough to look into the other end of the wallet, and to examine throughly their own spirits. d. A beggar's bag. † to bear the wallet [= French porter la besace] to be a beggar. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] thigc1300 begc1384 crave1393 to go a-begged1393 prowl1530 to go (or have been) a begging1535 maund?1536 to bear the wallet1546 cant1567 prog1579 to turn to bag and wallet1582 skelder1602 maunder1611 strike1618 emendicate1623 mendicate1623 to go a-gooding1646 mump1685 shool1736 cadge1819 to stand pad1841 stag1860 bum1870 schnorr1875 panhandle1894 pling1915 stem1924 nickel-and-dime1942 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's bag wallet1546 1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.vi Bringynge them vp other to beare walletes other els yf they be sturdi to stuffe prisons. 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) v. sig. Nvi And se thy goodes they not decrease but may augmented be, Least in thy age the wallet come. 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. C1 Thou art likewise to Giue way to any of vs that haue borne all the Offices of the Wallet before thee. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 6) 405 Needs must hee beare a wallet, and die a beggar. 1622 F. Bacon To King in Wks. (1874) XIX. 386 Pity me so far, as I that have borne a bag be not now in my age forced in effect to bear a wallet. 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 30 Without House or Land, or so much as a Wallet to go a begging with. 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 33 They coyned Meddals with the Kings Picture, on the one hand a Wallet, and a Dish on the other, with this Inscription, Faithful to God and the King, even to bear the Wallet. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 237 So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back He cast. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley ix. 135 Without a crust in my wallet, as beggars usually have. 1836 C. Hooton Adventures Bilberry Thurland I. vi. 124 Their appetites were now recovered, and the contributions of their collected wallets were found insufficient for the whole. 1879 G. F. Maclear Celts viii. 125 Itinerant beggars, who went about with wallets, were not regarded with favour. figurative.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 140 Time hath (my Lord) a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts almes for obliuion. View more context for this quotation e. A lawyer's bag. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > lawyer's bag buckram1607 buckram-bag1611 wallet1645 green bag1660 blue bag1788 red bag1845 brief-bag1848 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 A meer and arrant petti-fogger, who lately was so hardy, as to lay aside his buckram wallet, and make himself a fool in Print. f. Heraldry. (See quot. c1828.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of domestic items > [noun] > pilgrim's pouch walletc1828 c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Wallet, a scrip, or pilgrim's pouch. †2. transferred. Something (in an animal's body) protuberant and swagging. Cf. wattle n.² Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > protuberance bunchc1325 walleta1616 bosset1859 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 46 Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres, Dew-lapt, like Buls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh? View more context for this quotation 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 137 Since the great Bulk or Wallet of these Intestines must incline and swag towards the Diaphragm. 3. A flat bag, usually of leather, closed by a flap fastened with a button or clasp, or secured by a band. Originally U.S. a. A pocket-book for holding paper money without folding, or documents. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > wallet > [noun] pocketbook1670 reader1718 dummy1785 wallet1843 insider1846 porte-monnaie1850 skin1856 bill-holder1890 bill-book1895 billfold1895 poke1908 billfolder1909 1843 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 28 Oct. 58/2 Our several borrowings were thrust into a wallet which was sometimes in his pocket, sometimes in mine, as each took the turn to be paymaster. 1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wallet,..also, a pocket~book or place for keeping money about one's person. 1884 Advt. Thin Pocket Diary, for Wallet. 1888 Cassell [as ‘American’]. 1913 Daily News 1 Nov. 7 The plaintiff, a diamond merchant, was carrying a wallet containing £370 in bank-notes, brilliants value £320, two necklaces.., a diamond pendant cluster, [etc.]. 1914 Daily News 29 Jan. 2 He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a leather dollar wallet and examined its contents. b. A cyclist's tool-bag. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cycling equipment wallet1887 1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 432 The wallet, or tool-bag, is generally supplied with the machine. Categories » c. ‘A small kit carried by anglers,’ containing ‘thread and needles, awl, waxed ends,..a pair of small pliers, a file, etc.’ ( Cent. Dict.). ? U.S. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations as wallet book; wallet-carrying adj.; †wallet-ways adv. ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 69 You may perchance thinke it improper to behold me upon thy asse hanging Wallet-wayes. 1863 J. C. Bruce (title) The Wallet~book of the Roman Wall. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 76 Men in bowler hats, hurrying And a mingling of wallet-carrying women. C2. wallet-bearer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > other types of beggar overlier1449 roger?1536 jarkman1567 Irish toyle1575 jackman1575 chamber-deacon1607 reacher1607 wallet-bearer1611 pie card1931 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > other specific personal attendants henchmana1560 wallet-bearer1611 punkaha1613 bathing-woman1789 laquais de place1789 agterryer1824 punkah-wallah1826 famulus1837 personal assistant1910 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Besacier, the bag-bearer, or wallet-bearer of a begging, or beggarly companie. 1823 J. Gillies tr. Aristotle Rhetoric iii. ii. 372 In this way Iphicrates insulted Callias, by calling him the wallet-bearer of the goddess, instead of her torch-bearer. wallet envelope n. an envelope with a broad flap like that of a wallet. Draft additions September 2021 A device, application, or online service that can be used to make financial transactions electronically, and which may also store electronic forms of items such as receipts, tickets, and identity documents. Usually with modifying word, as electronic wallet, online wallet, virtual wallet, etc.digital wallet, mobile wallet: see the first element.Payments are made by drawing on funds which have been preloaded to the wallet, or by accessing stored details of a user's credit or debit card.In quot. 1982, describing a smart card (smart card n.) used for making small payments. ΚΠ 1982 Financial Times 12 Nov. 37/2 The basic patent [of the smart card] goes back to six years earlier, when a certain M Roland Moreno soldered a microcircuit to a bit of plastic with the idea of making a sort of electronic wallet from which amounts could be knocked off until it was empty. 1994 Bank Syst. & Technol. Mar. 6 Sauve referred to the scheme as an ‘electronic wallet’—a kind of cyber-bank in which tokens representing previously debited funds are moved around wherever the customer wants them within an electronic framework. 2002 What Mobile Apr. (Basics section) 23/1 A virtual wallet allows credit card and other personal details to be stored securely for speedy online shopping. 2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Jan. c1/3 This volunteer army has developed military-grade encryption to make bitcoin wallets more secure and insurable. 2018 New Yorker 22 Oct. 66/2 This is different from having your crypto[currency] stolen or hacked, when it's stored in an online ‘wallet.’ That happens all the time! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1405
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