For work among the flowers, a light pair of rather long scissors, say a foot long, can be carried at the girdle, or attached to the etui and passed over the shoulder with a looped cord so as to fall in an easy and graceful fold across the back.
"Further Foolishness"
Stephen Leacock
But I vow I love you best with your etui.
"Richard Carvel, Complete"
Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009
But when, by and by, approaching footsteps became audible in the stone-floored corridor without, Beatrice hastily shut the book, thrust it back upon the table, and caught up another so that Emilia Manfredi, entering, found her reading Monsieur Anatole France's "etui de nacre."
"The Cardinal's Snuff-Box"
Henry Harland