dressing case
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dressing case
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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She seized her dressing case and went through its contents.
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
Haverford's cheque was locked up in her dressing case.
From Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
A. Mervyn,—I saw it on his dressing case.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Beside a mossy rock lay her dressing case smashed open, its mirror, brushes, and vials trampled into the mud.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
All this Charley saw, while seeing through the ghost and beyond—the carving on the rosewood dressing case was quite as visible through the unsubstantial apparition as before.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
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