étui

étui englanniksi

1. etui

1. A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles.

2. (quote-book)|date=1 June 1791|volume=I|pages=4–5|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435023932460&view=1up&seq=155|oclc=863384324|passage=From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an ''etwee'' and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1855|author=Sir Richard Burton|title=Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah|publisher=Dover|year_published=1964|section=p. 26 n

4. {{quote-book|en|year=1972|author=Vladimir Nabokov|title=Transparent Things|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year_published=1972|page=13

5. 1995, Thomas Mann, translated from the 1925 German by John E. Woods, "The Magic Mountain", Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, p. 46:

And from a buff leather etui monogrammed in silver, he extracted one of his Maria Mancinis-- a lovely specimen from the top of the box, flattened on just one side the way he especially liked it ....

6. case (gloss)

7. holster (gloss)

8. cover (gloss)

9. cartridge (gloss)