Gladstone bag


noun
  1. a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.

Origin of Gladstone bag

1
First recorded in 1880–85; after W.E. Gladstone

Words Nearby Gladstone bag

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How to use Gladstone bag in a sentence

  • After a week or ten days he would suddenly pack his Gladstone bag and return in haste to Melbourne.

    Grey Town | Gerald Baldwin
  • I have just been there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Gladstone bag.

  • That it was not more ornamental than a Gladstone bag did not trouble him.

    Notwithstanding | Mary Cholmondeley
  • Mr. Stone bid me only take my Gladstone bag, for he was not going to spoil the phton with my trunks.

    A Romance of Toronto | Annie Gregg Savigny
  • Meanwhile a cooly, who had been summoned from the ricefields, appeared upon the scene and took up my Gladstone bag.

    A Visit to Java | W. Basil Worsfold

British Dictionary definitions for Gladstone bag

Gladstone bag

noun
  1. a piece of hand luggage consisting of two equal-sized hinged compartments

Origin of Gladstone bag

1
C19: named after W. E. Gladstone

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