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gladstone

[glad-stohn, -stuhn] / ˈglædˌstoʊn, -stən /
NOUN
portmanteau
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We've got the gladstone bag here; Miss Dolly's at the hotel—that's her papa's bright notion; he thinks she's to be trusted ...

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

“Here!” said Mr Verloc, giving a slight kick to the gladstone bag on the floor; and Stevie flung himself upon it, seized it, bore it off with triumphant devotion. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

Good fellows on the whole, with their gladstone bags and their pince-nez and their unmistakable respectability.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Kirkwood bent to pick it up, and so for the first time was made aware that she had brought with her a small black gladstone bag of considerable weight.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

Kirkwood took the case containing the gladstone bag in one hand, the girl's valise in the other, and followed.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph




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