Saratoga trunk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Saratoga trunk
1855–60, named after Saratoga Springs
Example Sentences
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A receipt for Ettie’s 1945 donation indicates that along with the house, she sent a doll, complete with a Saratoga trunk and trousseau; and Carrie shows up, in a reproduction of a portrait by Florine, as a glamorous flapper at a garden party.
From New York Times
“Saratoga,” a short-lived 1959 show by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, drew on her 1941 “Saratoga Trunk.”
From New York Times
You will need a Saratoga trunk, if you keep on.”
From Project Gutenberg
The last day of school he always went home and found the house smelling trunky and Mother with piles of clothes folded on all the chairs, packing a Saratoga trunk.
From Project Gutenberg
Strictly speaking, A Kind of Magic begins in 1938 and covers the years of Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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