sporran

How To Use sporran In A Sentence

• Our visitors wore the official berretta, European shirts, that contrasted with coral necklaces and rings of zinc, brass, and copper, and handsome waistcoats, fronted by the well-tanned spoil of some “bush” animal, generally a wild cat, hanging like a Scotch sporran — this is and has long been the distinctive sign of a “gentleman.” Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• Besides the sporran, which dates back to 1890 and is accompanied by a photograph of Lauder wearing it, Johnstone is selling a silver cigar box and two silver cups that once belonged to the entertainer.
• We are going to have to dig way down deep in the sporran to replace it. Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish
• Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran. Chronicles of the Canongate
• The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained. The Lancaster Men
• Still, she's insistent that the sporran is a unisex accessory.
• His well-knit body was, except for matching shoes and the ubiquitous silken sporran, otherwise uncovered. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
• There are also two kilt shops, with Highland regalia for sale or hire, their windows dressed in swathes of tartan and accessories, dirks, sporrans and brogues.
• He was a lantern-jawed, sallow-faced, high-browed fellow in his prime, with the merest hint of a hirple or halt in his walk, very shabby in his dress, wearing no sporran, but with a dagger bobbing about at his groin. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
• I ended up buying the kilt itself, a black leather sporran, some black hose, and black flashes.