Gladstone bag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Gladstone bag
First recorded in 1880–85; after W.E. Gladstone
Example Sentences
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At meetings of collectors' clubs, he often appears lugging in his thin white fingers an ancient dilapidated Gladstone bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to a Gladstone bag, removed a brown leather jewel case.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
About twenty minutes after this, an outporter in Castle Hill Avenue was accosted by a young man, with a pale, desperate face, an exquisitely rolled umbrella and a heavy Gladstone bag.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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