dressing case

American  

noun

1. a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.

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dressing case British  

noun

1. (esp formerly) a box or case fitted with all the toilet articles necessary for dressing oneself, arranging one's hair, etc

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Etymology

Origin of dressing case

First recorded in 1780–90

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Example Sentences

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dressing case

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

And then she unlocked the dressing case, took out her jewels once more, handling them with greatest care.

From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch

"My dear Rosalie," with a wave of the hand taking in both herself and her dressing case, "it is all too strong."

From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When people travel and visit their friends their luggage includes among other things a dressing case, for there are many toilet requisites which are of a personal character, and cannot well be substituted by others.

From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

Some of those jewels were stolen from a woman's dressing case at the Grand Hotel, with the woman herself in bed and more than half awake at the time.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh

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