sporran

IPA: spˈɔrʌn

noun

  • A small pouch, usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmed leather, which is worn, suspended from a belt or chain, on the front of a kilt and used to hold various items normally carried in trouser pockets.
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Examples of "sporran" in Sentences

  • Several types of sporran are worn.
  • The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
  • Dress sporran could be hair, fur, or skin, any pattern.
  • A sporran is a type of pouch traditionally worn with a kilt.
  • The accompanying sporran is often thought to be amusing too.
  • We are going to have to dig way down deep in the sporran to replace it.
  • Hoy wore a grey kilt with a sporran, while his wife wore a white dress and veil.
  • Too bad it replaced the already existing "sporran", which describes exactly the same kind of thing.
  • A stark-naked savage this, and devoid of all adornment excepting a waist-belt of plaited grass and a "sporran" of similar material.
  • When Baker met the king of Buganda, he appeared in full Highland dress: kilt, sporran and Glengarry bonnet all complete in the heart of Africa.
  • Clothing was generally confined to a kind of sporran, elaborately patterned with symbols, to leave glands and mahogany fur available for signals.
  • That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach.

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