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Gladstone bag
noun
- a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
Gladstone bag
noun
- a piece of hand luggage consisting of two equal-sized hinged compartments
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Gladstone bag1
First recorded in 1880–85; after W.E. Gladstone
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Gladstone bag1
C19: named after W. E. Gladstone
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Example Sentences
After a week or ten days he would suddenly pack his Gladstone bag and return in haste to Melbourne.
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I have just been there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Gladstone bag.
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That it was not more ornamental than a Gladstone bag did not trouble him.
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Mr. Stone bid me only take my Gladstone bag, for he was not going to spoil the phton with my trunks.
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Meanwhile a cooly, who had been summoned from the ricefields, appeared upon the scene and took up my Gladstone bag.
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