First Known Use: circa 1738
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reticule
noun ret·i·cule \ˈre-ti-ˌkyül\
Definition of RETICULE
1
: reticle
2
: a woman's drawstring bag used especially as a carryall
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Origin of RETICULE
French réticule, from Latin reticulum small net, mesh bag, from diminutive of rete net
Rhymes with RETICULE
April fool, Barnaul, blow one's cool, boarding school, charter school, common school, cutty stool, dirty pool, ducking stool, fascicule, gallinule, grammar school, graticule, groupuscule, Hartlepool, Istanbul, kilojoule, lenticule, Liverpool, machine tool, magnet school, majuscule, middle school, minischool, minuscule, molecule, motor pool, normal school, nursery school, overrule, private school, public school, reform school, ridicule, summer school, Sunday school, training school, vestibule, wading pool
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