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GIPSER
Gip"ser, Gip"sire, n. Etym: [F. gibecière a game pouch or game pocket. Cf. Gibbier.]
Definition: A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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