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gladstone

[glad-stohn, -stuhn] / ˈglædˌstoʊn, -stən /
NOUN
portmanteau
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It troubled us sorely to leave our good tents, beds, and equipment behind, yet all we could take was the blankets and one gladstone bag packed with clothes for us all.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot

Kirkwood took the case containing the gladstone bag in one hand, the girl's valise in the other, and followed.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

Kirkwood bent to pick it up, and so for the first time was made aware that she had brought with her a small black gladstone bag of considerable weight.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

Good fellows on the whole, with their gladstone bags and their pince-nez and their unmistakable respectability.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Buck took Jack's gladstone, called a carriage, and gave the name of the hotel.

From Jack Haydon's Quest by Jellicoe, John




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