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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 Louis Joseph Vance

"I am to meet my father there, with this,"—indicating the gladstone bag.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

The car made a leisurely progress up past the old Steen castle and the Quai landing, Kirkwood sitting quietly, the gladstone bag under his hand, a searching gaze sweeping the waterside.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

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 Sir Owen Seaman

To all intents and purposes he was a thief, and thief he would remain until the gladstone bag with its contents should be restored to its rightful owner.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance




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