Gladstone bag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Gladstone bag
First recorded in 1880–85; after W.E. Gladstone
Example Sentences
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Gladstone bag and all, the book has become a delicious and gossipy literary event in England ...
From Time Magazine Archive
You heard of "Hooverize," a "Gladstone" bag, but Maverick is unique.
From Time Magazine Archive
His blond hair has silvered satisfactorily, and his craggily handsome face is tanned and as well-creased as an heirloom Gladstone bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
At meetings of collectors' clubs, he often appears lugging in his thin white fingers an ancient dilapidated Gladstone bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
His daughter handed him a soft hat and a Gladstone bag, and he was transformed before her eyes into a commercial traveller.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 by Various
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