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musette bag

British  

noun

  1. an army officer's haversack

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In addition to his suitcase, musette bag, and walnut cane, MacArthur would take his wife Jean and son Arthur, the two most precious people in his life.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2018

French phrase books clutched in their hands, Gerland Gildner and Eugene van Sant clattered in with a musette bag full of gifts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Debonair Columnist Joe Alsop flew in to Tokyo with five pieces of luggage en route to Korea, was finally convinced that he needed only a single musette bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fashionable in Castroesque fatigues and shouldering a musette bag, Kinsella drops by helicopter into the rebel stronghold, an ancient island monastery called Muck Abbey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yossarian put aside the musette bag from which he had begun removing his toilet articles and braced himself suspiciously.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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