The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The clientele will be limited to diplomatic staff, who have for years imported booze in sealed official packages known as diplomatic pouches.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
Under international law, diplomatic pouches are protected from scrutiny, even by X-ray.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
The embassy said it has followed the rules laid out in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and accused the United States of unlawfully opening diplomatic pouches and searching the contents.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020
The absolutist understanding of mission inviolability also embraces an outdated, romantic vision of diplomacy that imagines trained consuls meeting in person at elegant bars and ferrying secretive information about in diplomatic pouches.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2018
Soon Stan and Dennis were back at the office getting a tutorial on how the Russians smuggle things into the United States in diplomatic pouches.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
