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Sabretasche vs Sabretache - What's the difference?

sabretasche | sabretache |

As nouns the difference between sabretasche and sabretache

is that sabretasche is (military|dated) a leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the swordbelt while sabretache is a leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.

sabretasche

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military, dated) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the swordbelt.
    • (Webster 1913)

    sabretache

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt
    • “There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.” A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.
    "Two years in Europe—with a campaign thrown in—would I think qualify me to be allowed to beat my sword into a paper cutter & my sabretache into an election address." Letter from Winston Churchill, on Army duty in India, to his mother, 1896