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in a '' Tacuinum Sanitatis '']] A pocket is a small Bag , particularly a bag-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of Clothing . Cargo Pants have pockets with an extra large capacity. In European clothing pockets began by being hung like Purse s from a belt, which could be secreted beneat a coat or jerkin and reached through a slit in the outer garment. The word appears in Middle English as ''poket'', and is taken from a Norman diminutive of O. Fr. ''poke'', ''pouque'', mod. ''poche'', cf. Pouch . The form "poke" is now only used dialectically, or in such proverbial sayings as "a pig in a poke," and possibly in the Poke-bonnet , the coal-scuttle bonnet fashionable during the first part of the 19th Century , and now worn by the female members of the Salvation Army . More probably the name of the bonnet is connected with ''poke'', to thrust forward, dig. The origin of this is obscure. Dutch has ''poken'', ''pook'', a Dagger ; Swedish has ''påk'', a stick. Historically, the term pocket referred to:
A fob pocket is a small pocket designed to hold an old style Pocket Watch , sometimes found in men's Trousers and Waistcoat s. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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