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vanity bag

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noun

  1. a woman's small bag or hand case used to carry cosmetics, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“I’d get in the shiny white Cadillac with my matching vanity bag and luggage.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

One thing after another goes missing in our class, first it was Fleischer's galoshes, then my new gloves, three times money was missing, and today Fraulein Steiner's new vanity bag.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Eden Paul

St. is frightfully upset because her betrothed gave her the vanity bag for a birthday present and his photo was in it.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Eden Paul

She dives into her vanity bag and proceeds to retouch the scenic effects on her face.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln

Of the two Cordovas, he found the girl Lucretia a mere walking vanity bag: idle, shiftless, eager for compliments, and without two ideas in her vain little head.

From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

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