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gladstone

[glad-stohn, -stuhn] / ˈglædˌstoʊn, -stən /
NOUN
portmanteau
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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

"I am to meet my father there, with this,"—indicating the gladstone bag.

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

Yet he was not at all at ease; his uneasy conscience invested the gladstone bag with a magnetic attraction for the public eye.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

“Here!” said Mr Verloc, giving a slight kick to the gladstone bag on the floor; and Stevie flung himself upon it, seized it, bore it off with triumphant devotion. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph




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