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The first rider, on horseback, left the historic riverfront neighborhood of Old Sacramento, California last week with 1,000 pieces of mail inside a leather satchel.—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025 An uneasiness rippled through the crowd as the chaperones approached with satchels of quarters.—Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025 In the episode’s final brilliant twist, Guy opens the satchel and discovers it’s filled with hotel-breakfast coupons, which Charlie collects on her travels.—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 12 June 2025 But that didn't perturb Nielsen, of San Antonio, Texas, who saw it as a challenge to revive the satchel.—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for satchel
Word History
Etymology
Middle English sachel, from Anglo-French sachel, sacel, from Late Latin saccellum, diminutive of Latin sacculus, diminutive of saccus bag — more at sack
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