Gladstone bag
a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
Origin of Gladstone bag
1- Also called 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 BaldwinI have just been there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Gladstone bag.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | A. Conan DoyleThat it was not more ornamental than a Gladstone bag did not trouble him.
Notwithstanding | Mary CholmondeleyMr. 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 SavignyMeanwhile 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
a piece of hand luggage consisting of two equal-sized hinged compartments
Origin of Gladstone bag
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