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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This appears to be replacing “Chanel purse” as the style endures but the designer Coco Chanel is forgotten. On the other hand, I don’t recall hearing it pronounced, so maybe it’s just a rampant misspelling: 3,290,000 Google hits for “channel purse” vs. 1,610,000 for the original.
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