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etwee

etwee is the obsolete form of étui.

Meaning of étui

Noun

étui (plural étuis)

  1. A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles.
    • 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.1791 June 1, John Ireland, “The Harlot’s Progress. Plate I.”, in Hogarth Illustrated, volume I, [London]: J[ohn] & J[osiah] Boydell […], →OCLC, pages 4–5

Forms of etwee

pluraletwees

Questions about etwee

What is etwee the obsolete form of?
Etwee is the obsolete form of étui.

Words near etwee in the dictionary

  1. ETUs
  2. etux
  3. ETV
  4. ETVs
  5. Etwall
  6. etwee
  7. etwees
  8. ety
  9. etybenzatropine
  10. etyid
  11. etyids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: etwee (page history and authors); étui (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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