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gladstone

[glad-stohn, -stuhn] / ˈglædˌstoʊn, -stən /
NOUN
portmanteau
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After a block or two Kirkwood picked up the gladstone bag, gently opened the door, and put a foot on the step, pausing to look back.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

He unpacked your gladstone bag, and you were uneasily aware that your well-worn pyjamas and modest toilet articles had made an unfavourable impression upon him.

From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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

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

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

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph




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