pocket secretary

American  

noun

1. a long, narrow walletlike case, usually of leather and containing pockets for credit and business cards, paper money, etc., and sometimes a notepad and pencil.

---

Example Sentences

A Lanier pocket secretary is at the ready to help Carter sort out his days.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916.

From Time Magazine Archive

He replaced the pocket secretary and looked at me edgewise, speculatively.

From Project Gutenberg

Madison folded himself into the canary yellow client's chair at my direction, and took a leather-bound pocket secretary from inside his almost-too-snug jacket.

From Project Gutenberg