Saratoga trunk

American  

noun

1. a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.

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Etymology

Origin of Saratoga trunk

1855–60, named after Saratoga Springs

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Saratoga trunk

I found it to-day down in my Saratoga trunk.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

A Saratoga trunk of obtrusive proportions stood in the centre of the peaceful vegetation, like a newly raised altar to an unknown deity.

From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Bret Harte

The Chinese cart has been described as a Saratoga trunk on two wheels.

From The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland

I don't see," drawled Mr. Hammond, "how you girls manage to travel at all without a Saratoga trunk apiece.

From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr

One end of it was filled with the mail, of which there were eight bags, each as large as a Saratoga trunk and as difficult to handle.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox